Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president, was also in my view the best of all presidential speechwriters. As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president ...

How then to explain Death of Abraham Lincoln ... Mary Henry's diary is just one of many Smithsonian artifacts illuminating Lincoln's life available through the pan-institutional "connections ...

On May 30, Abraham Lincoln signed a law awarding prize money ... starting in 1875. The Smithsonian Channel docuseries “One Thousand Years of Slavery” premieres on February 7.

Lincoln the movie shows how Abraham Lincoln went about avoiding swamps and reaching people's hearts. Illustration by René Milot A still from Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg. Photo ...

It was here, on August 27, 1858, that U.S. senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas waged a war of words. "Imagine that you're there," says my guide, George Buss, stepping onto ...

But Pitch's theme today is Abraham Lincoln ... It's only a few blocks from The House Where Lincoln Died to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. There you'll find a plaster cast ...

A massive trove of Abraham Lincoln’s historical writings, keepsakes and personal effects is heading to the auction block in ...

George McClellan, with Abraham Lincoln at Antietam in 1862, took command of the Union armies but let the president wait. Alexander Gardner / Library of Congress On November 1, George B.

Author Harold Holzer discusses Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the President's lasting impact on modern American politics and nostalgia (Meredith Bragg). Read more ...

But it’s clear in this book that Caro has come to believe that LBJ deserves a place alongside Lincoln (who also had his own racial “issues”) as a champion of equal rights and racial comity.

Smithsonian curator Larry Bird shows off convention artifacts and other campaign memorabilia from the collection of the National Museum of American History (Smit ...