But back in the 1800s, books made Abraham Lincoln. ... "Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print" uses original printings of books and ephemera to create a sweeping, conceptual portrait of the man.

The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold.

Before Abraham Lincoln was president, he spent many years as a prairie lawyer out in the frontier state of Illinois, where he decided to study a very old math book ...

The foundation said in March that it would be auctioning off 144 items — less than 10 percent of its 1,540-item collection — to close out the loan it took out to buy the artifacts in 2007.

Old Bob, Lincoln's carriage horse, is represented in an 1865 photo with then owner John Flynn. Old Bob was part of the cortège preceding Lincoln's funeral in Springfield, There is also a photo of ...

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

and Abraham Lincoln Contrasted; ... This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, ... of which, we believe, nobody who knew him of old suspected the existence, ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860, the 11-year-old Grace Bedell claimed to have solved the problem of Lincoln’s face and wrote him a letter to tell him about it. The ...

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.

Abraham Lincoln artifacts to be auctioned to pay off foundation’s debt. ... “Abraham Lincoln is my name,” the 14-year-old wrote in a top corner, “and with my pen I wrote the same.