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

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln -- the highlight of a fascinating catalog -- sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $12 million.

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

The larger-than-life legacy of Abraham Lincoln lies, in part, in the smallest special-collections division of the University ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

The gloves were the top-selling items at the auction, bringing in $1.52 million. One of two handkerchiefs Lincoln had with him April 14, 1865, the night he was shot, went for $826,000.

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 building at 333 W. Lake St. in Chicago, shown in 1939, is on the site of the “Wigwam,” the assembly hall where Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. (Harold Revoir ...