In 1860, an 11-year-old girl named Grace Bedell changed history. Abraham Lincoln, then a little-known two-term congressman from Illinois, was running for president. While television was still a hun… ...

A "wanted" poster for Abraham Lincoln's killers, including John Wilkes Booth, was sold at auction. It was printed on April 20, 1865, six days after Lincoln died, and advertises a $100,000 reward.

No face in American history is more recognizable than Abraham Lincoln’s. His lean, craggy, hollow appearance — with tousled hair and scraggly beard (without a mustache) and melancholic eyes ...