Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we celebrate his essential contributions to our country, let's ...

Abigail Henry is a Schomburg Fellow and a graduate assistant at the University at Buffalo. She is the instructor for the ...

Create a series of learning stations by attaching each of the documents in the “Abraham Lincoln: Primary Source Documents ... Excerpt from book The Martyr President; Our Grief and Our Duty ...

When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s ...

It would be a difficult task in most cases to build “up the man in his habit as he lived,” from such meagre sources; but President ... was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln.

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...