Did coffin flag from Abraham Lincoln's 1865 funeral train wind up hidden away in Florida? What Rhonda Hiser discovered behind a bookcase at the Museum of Southern History in Florida was an 1865 ...

President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is one of the saddest events in American history. Yet on the morning of April 14, 1865, the President awoke in an uncommonly good mood.

The death of Lincoln, circa 1865. Lincoln’s body was removed from Ford’s Theater and taken across the street to the Peterson’s boarding house. Secretary of War Stanton stands to the right of ...

President Abraham Lincoln died on this day, April 15, 1865, about nine hours after he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln and his wife had been watching a play at Ford's Theatre in D.C.

A portrait of Abraham Lincoln, one of a series of photos by Alexander Gardner made April 9, 1865, the week of the assassination. It is believed to be the last photograph made of Lincoln.

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is seen in a stereo photo card from the archives of the Library of Congress taken by U.S. government photographer Lewis Emory Walker in Washington February, 1865.

Abraham Lincoln held the nation’s highest office at a most crucial time in its young history. Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin on Feb. 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Ky. The Lincolns moved … ...

Rare theater tickets from the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated sold at auction for $262,500. The pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 were for ...

President Abraham Lincoln delivered his second Inaugural Address 150 years ago Wednesday. ... 1865: John Wilkes Booth, who would assassinate the president little more than a month later.

When the dispute between union vs. states’ rights erupted into the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln guided the nation through its greatest challenge. PRESIDENT Abraham Lincoln made it clear from th… ...