One child is heard gasping and exclaiming, "Did Abraham Lincoln die?" as the rest of the class erupts into tears. Cal, clearly caught off guard, can be heard laughing in disbelief at the intense ...

In the oak-paneled hush of the reading room overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue, Karen Needles mostly works alone — but always in good company.

February 23rd marks one of the oddest anniversaries in American history, as President-elect Abraham Lincoln was smuggled in disguise in 1861 through Baltimore due to perceived assassination threats.

Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 the next morning. "A little while later, soldiers rounded the corner carrying something, and that's when the thousands of people standing on the street maintaining ...

“Abraham Lincoln died this morning at 22 minutes after seven," the telegram read. Eckert gave it to a runner to take down to the document to the War Department telegraphers, who delivered the ...

When Abraham Lincoln died in 1865, felled by an assassin’s bullet at the end of the Civil War, he left behind a considerable legacy. But Lincoln did not leave behind many descendants. In 1985 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln's death is being offered for sale by a Philadelphia documents dealer. Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection ...

The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln’s death is being offered for sale by a Philadelphia documents dealer.Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection, says the telegram ...