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 ...

One was a 2013 report penned by top curators with the Smithsonian National Museum ... museum had maintained that Lincoln gave the hat to an Illinois farmer in 1858, though a century later a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Installation view of Georges Adéagbo’s Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America at the Smithsonian ... Lincoln in a top hat, carved in Benin ...

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 ...

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 ...