The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln's death is being offered for sale by a Philadelphia documents dealer. Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection, says the telegram was ...

Plotz got to see Lincoln's writing on the document during a recent tour of the National Archives vaults (hence the post.) As Plotz writes: I guess it's not surprising that the author of the Gettysburg ...

On the night Abraham Lincoln was shot, April 14, 1865, Associated Press correspondent Lawrence Gobright scrambled to report from the White House, the streets of the stricken capital, and even from the ...

Whether you’re a Civil War buff or get all your learnin’ from Drunk History, HistoryMiami keeps churning out lively events that tempt locals to dive into the past. For the 150th anniversary of Abraham ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Speakers at a service commemorating Abraham Lincoln's death say the president's influence is as powerful today as it was 150 years ago. Wednesday's service in Springfield's ...

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For most of us, the Lincoln assassination lives only in history books or in television or movie adaptations of the event. But for Samuel J. Seymour (1860–1956), it was a core memory. It was a ...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi State University (MSU) Libraries will offer the public a chance to step back in time and learn more about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, which ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—With the country on the cusp of healing after the Civil War, the sudden assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 stands as one of the most significant and haunting events in American ...

The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, shortly after the Civil War ended. It details his humble beginnings in ...

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