In 1876, Abraham Lincoln’s body sat in an unguarded tomb in a cemetery about two miles outside of Springfield. That year, two Chicago counterfeiters hatched a plot to steal it.

The 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's funeral visitation at the Ohio Statehouse is Wednesday, which brings to mind an odd story about how the president's body was exhumed 36 years ...

Excerpted from Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History by Richard Wightman Fox, out now from W. W. Norton & Co. When Lincoln breathed his last on Saturday morning, April 15, 1865, his wife was ...

In 1876, Abraham Lincoln's body lay within an aboveground white marble sarcophagus in a handsome tomb on the grounds of Springfield, Ill.'s Oak Ridge Cemetery.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 14.--The body of Abraham Lincoln was to-day removed from the spot where it has been secreted since an attempt was made in 1878 to steal it, and placed in a new tomb.

On April 21, 1865, a train carrying the body of Abraham Lincoln and bearing the dead president’s picture affixed above the cattle guard on the front left Washington for a 180-city, seven-state ...

Some experts say it’s a long-lost picture of the country’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, taken hours after he was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 15, 1865 — and they call it a ...

But Lincoln’s body would not remain undisturbed, and in 1901 his coffin was moved again. It was also reopened. According to witnesses, one of whom didn’t die until 1963, Lincoln was perfectly ...

Chicago auction house under fire for selling off items on Lincoln’s body the night he was killed. A Chicago auction house will sell some of President Abraham Lincoln’s belongings, including ...

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Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew ...