Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

With permission from Mary Lincoln, the department gave the hat to the Patent Office, which, in 1867, transferred it to the Smithsonian. Joseph Henry, the Secretary of the Smithsonian, ordered his ...

and Abraham Lincoln’s top hat. Some might wonder if cast-off items from TV shows are worthy of preserving in the same way. But a curator at the Smithsonian once argued that they were just as ...

With permission from Mary Lincoln, the department gave the hat to the Patent Office, which, in 1867, transferred it to the Smithsonian. Joseph Henry, the Secretary of the Smithsonian, ordered his ...

The foundation steadfastly has maintained Lincoln gave the hat to a southern Illinois farmer. But historians at the Smithsonian and Chicago History museums – and even forensic analysts with FBI ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Abraham Lincoln’s iconic stove pipe hat is missing from a sculpture along the waterfront in Louisville. Sculptor Ed Hamilton, who designed the work of Lincoln looking out over ...

Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ... There’s not a lot of the kind of hats, the posters that we usually see. So there are fewer objects, in general, to ...

Her ornate synthetic hair hats and accessories ware now a part of the collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Washington tragically ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Abraham Lincoln’s iconic stove pipe hat is missing from a sculpture along the waterfront in Louisville. Sculptor Ed Hamilton, who designed the work of Lincoln looking out over ...

Question: Can you name the hat, once worn by a Twin Citian, that is now in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.? Answer: The fishing hat worn by Bloomington’s ...

Or does the president define the hat? Stephen L. Carter Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of ...