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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The only town named for Abraham Lincoln before he became president faces another economic blow if the state follows through on plans to locate a women’s prison.

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 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 ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky. He would go on to rank among the best presidents in U.S. history , and he still makes news headlines when referenced by today's politicians.

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

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.