So when I got married (in 1982) to my husband, Dean Lincoln, and we had our second child, and it was a boy," she says, snapping her fingers, "sure enough, I wanted to name him Abraham.

For the greater part of his life, and in three states, the boy would be said to come from unrespectable stock. According to Abraham Lincoln's later law partner, William H. Herndon, there was a ...

On October 8, the day before, his mother did something you can't do today: she went to the White House and visited with President Abraham Lincoln. She pleaded with him to save her boy's life.

Lincoln surrounded himself with strong, capable people. Lincoln assembled a “team of rivals” in his cabinet, which had former ...

When President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary — in 1863, while in the White House — received a live turkey for the family to feast on at Christmas, their precocious eight-year-old son Tad ...

A boy becomes a man. Lincoln’s life story actually began in Kentucky with his ... a bronze bas-relief of 19-year-old Abraham Lincoln marks the spot on the Ohio River where he departed on a ...

Kay Winters discusses her latest book for children [Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books], published by Simon and Schuster. The picture book biography of the 16th president focuses on his ...