The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived ... in and set up their equipment and take a daguerreotype photo of the solemn moment. As soon as word spread of Gurney's ...

Abraham Lincoln photo find of the last 60 years. The former Disney animator savors the magic moment of discovery as if it were a Proustian madeleine or a 1943 Lincoln copper penny. See Oakley's ...

Then in his early 20s — and long before his career as a politician — Abraham Lincoln was a complete unknown. He’d drifted to ...

New Salem, a tiny central Illinois village where Lincoln spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, has fallen into disrepair.

Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 on a farm his parents had bought a few months earlier in rural Central Kentucky. The family ...

part of the reconstructed village of New Salem where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837, March 10, 2025, in Petersburg, Ill. (AP Photo/John O'Connor) ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a log cabin in the wilderness of Kentucky on February 12, 1809, Lincoln moved to Indiana with his family when he was seven. The 14 years ...