A silver gelatin print of Abraham Lincoln while campaigning for the U.S. Senate in Chicago, October 27, 1854. Sidney Blumenthal writes that until he was 21 years old, Abraham Lincoln’s father ...

Lincoln’s mail included advice, warnings, pleas, and death sentences. Thousands of the transcriptions are now on line, as Library of Congress concludes its massive “Letters to Lincoln” project.

Lincoln’s signature alone, framed with an original hand-colored Currier & Ives print from Lincoln’s first inauguration in 1861: $6,500. A one-sentence legal order signed “Lincoln & Herndon ...

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.

This delicate print, made from a wood engraving on tissue paper, is housed in The Drexel Collection. This month, in honor of this birthday, the From the Collection series spotlights a portrait of ...

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, ...

A previously unknown and unpublished Civil War-era letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been acquired by the Raab Collection — and is being sold for $85,000. Here are details.

An 1870 Gibson & Co. lithograph shows the assassination by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre; on the left are Mary Todd Lincoln, seated in the front, Maj. Henry Rathbone rising to stop Booth ...

"What is conservatism?" Abraham Lincoln once asked. "Is it not the adherence to the old and the tried, against the new and the untried?" It is that, and so much more. Feb. 12,2009 marks the 200th ...

On this day in history, Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln — America's 16th president — was born in Kentucky. He spent his childhood in the wilderness of 19th-century Indiana before turning to ...