Stories from the 1800s are still being told in Our Town Mount Pleasant. “We could put it all in context and be storytellers ...

Abraham Lincoln is a role model for today’s turbulent times When Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham writes about someone as complex as Lincoln, and a time more divisive than today ...

Abraham Lincoln with his new beard (1861). Photo: Library of Congress. On a February afternoon in 1864, Abraham Lincoln stood outside the White House, ...

A new exhibition—“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print”—opened this week at the Grolier Club in New York City. Using books, documents and ephemera, the show follows Lincoln’s rise from a ...

The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold.

A Chicago auction house will sell some of President Abraham Lincoln’s belongings, including blood-stained gloves he had in his pocket the night he was killed.

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago. Many describe contemporary America in the same terms.

Lincoln’s mechanical and scientific interests began with his training as a surveyor in New Salem and continued throughout his life. In 1848 he decided try his own hand at developing an invention to ...

The 42-inch plaster model of the statue was made in 1933, though Torrey’s interpretation places Lincoln in the White House, ...

Detail of portrait of President Abraham Lincoln by George Healey, 1869 (White House Historical Association/via Wikimedia) Share 16 Comments Listen By Dan McLaughlin ...

Lincoln’s original patent model was acquired by the Smithsonian in 1908. This replica was built by the Smithsonian in 1978 for long-term display to preserve the fragile original. NMAH/SI Upon ...