But back in the 1800s, books made Abraham Lincoln. ... "Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print" uses original printings of books and ephemera to create a sweeping, conceptual portrait of the man.

“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print” is on view through December 28—running more than a month before and after the presidential election on November 5.

Lincoln, Abraham Description On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln took the presidential oath of office. No president, before or after, entered the office with the nation in such peril. Seven Southern ...

WM.H. HERNDOE, for twenty years the law partner of Mr. LINCOLN, delivered a lecture on the life and characteristics of the late President, at Springfield, Ill., on the 17th inst, to be followed by ...

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life and Legacy, I was in tears. She had precisely nailed the types of ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860, the 11-year-old Grace Bedell claimed to have solved the problem of Lincoln’s face and wrote him a letter to tell him about it. The ...

The gloves were the top-selling items at the auction, bringing in $1.52 million. One of two handkerchiefs Lincoln had with him April 14, 1865, the night he was shot, went for $826,000.

A pair of leather gloves worn by President Abraham Lincoln to Ford’s Theater on the night of his assassination fetched $1.5 million at auction this week, part of a trove of relics from his life ...