NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham Lincoln, many images may come to mind: rail-splitter, country lawyer, young congressman, embattled president, Great Emancipator, assassin's victim ...

Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...

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 ...

This film narrates the life of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, from his humble beginnings in a poor Pioneer family in Kentucky to his rise as a prominent lawyer and ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...

GHENT, WV (WVNS) — When we think of the most legendary presidents our nation has had, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, typically takes the first or second spot.