Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Forty-five feet below the iconic sculpture of former president Abraham Lincoln is the sketch of a woman suspected to be Theda Bara — a scandalous silent-film star from the time of the Memorial ...

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.

Carpenter's Sketch of President Lincoln. Share full article. April 28, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from April 28, 1865, Page 1 Buy Reprints.

Retropolis Lincoln’s secret: Below the memorial, graffiti may show racy screen star. The Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft ...

The foundation expected to use private donations to pay back a loan it used to acquire the artifacts, it was still $9.7 million in debt seven years ago when it asked for donations via GoFundMe.

Items that President Abraham Lincoln had the night he was assassinated – including white leather gloves with splatters of blood on them – are up for auction, drawing ire from the collection ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky. He would go on to rank among the best presidents in U.S. history , and he still makes news headlines when referenced by today's politicians.

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The collection’s original owner is “appalled.” ...

Francis Ford as the 16th president in “The Heart of Lincoln,” which he also directed. The newly discovered film had been among 7,000 silent films deemed lost by the Library of Congress.

How Abraham Lincoln in a kippah wound up making a $250,000 ... was moved after getting a replica of an order from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and an eyewitness sketch of a D-Day platoon ...

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