Dorothy McClerren, 96, portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in her daughter’s home to share her talents with Heartland Hospice workers ...

Juneteenth remained obscure in most of the country throughout the ugly decades of Jim Crow and white supremacy. Since the Civil Rights Movement, however, Juneteenth has been generally recognized as ...

The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln carried the night of his assassination.

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The Victorian home of Col. Friend Rutherford, an Abraham Lincoln associate, was demolished in the 1990s.

The Lincoln Family Album Mamie, daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln — the president’s only child to make it to adulthood — called it home until 1935, sticking around long after Charles died in 1919.

Some presidents' journeys to Washington began in surprisingly humble homes, cottages, or log cabins. With six levels, 132 rooms, and 35 bathrooms, the White House was unsurprisingly a jarring ...

Indiana and New Mexico celebrate Lincoln’s birthday on the day after Thanksgiving. The Hall of Presidents and First Ladies, a wax museum in Gettysburg, Pa., held an auction before it closed in 2017.

In a quarter-century legal career, Abraham Lincoln accepted all types of casework, ranging from real estate to murder — and 145 divorces.

In his 1860 endorsement of Abraham Lincoln, The Atlantic's founding editor predicted, accurately, that the coming election would be "a turning-point in our history." ...