On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

A pair of gloves carried by President Lincoln on the night he was shot could sell for over $1 million. Read about the Chicago ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860, the 11-year-old Grace Bedell claimed to have solved the problem of ...

Abraham Lincoln’s blood-stained leather gloves are headed for auction - Auctioneers in Chicago hope to get $4m for 140 items ...

Secretary of State William Seward was attacked but ultimately survived. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, the University of ...

It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

A Civil War-era projectile has been discovered on a Manassas historic site celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. City Manager Steve Burke told Manassas City Council Monday night about the three ...

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the ...

Patrons of the annual Lincoln Days Civil War Reenactment will commemorate those historic events in a slightly different fashion this year. The Pike County chapter of the Looking for Lincoln ...