Chicken Fricassee. For dinner, Old Abe loved chicken fricassee. It’s not so common anymore, but it was a popular dish in the ...

Abraham Lincoln's bloodstained gloves from Ford's Theatre sold for $1.52 million at auction. Other items included a handkerchief and a "wanted" poster.

Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great about America: He was courageous, compassionate, wise and quite likely gay. “Lover of Men” (in theaters now) is a revealing new documentary ...

D URING America’s civil war, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln reportedly began sharing a bed with his bodyguard, a soldier named David Derickson. The tittle-tattle was recorded in the diary of Virginia ...

If Abraham Lincoln still matters to Americans in the 21st century—and he does—a major reason is that there’s much at stake politically in how we remember him.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is no longer the largest aircraft carrier but it’s not far behind. Here is its homeport and how many crew members it has.

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The collection’s original owner is “appalled.” ...

The author of a new Abraham Lincoln book on the 16th president's accomplishments and what he would think of Donald Trump. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. Sections.

A pair of blood-stained gloves that Abraham Lincoln had when he was assassinated at Freeman’s-Hindman Auction House in West Loop, Chicago, May 15, 2025 (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP ...

Francis Ford as the 16th president in “The Heart of Lincoln,” which he also directed. The newly discovered film had been among 7,000 silent films deemed lost by the Library of Congress.

Did coffin flag from Abraham Lincoln's 1865 funeral train wind up hidden away in Florida? What Rhonda Hiser discovered behind a bookcase at the Museum of Southern History in Florida was an 1865 ...

The writer Carl Sandburg, in his 1926 biography of Abraham Lincoln, made a provocative claim—that the President’s relationship with the Kentucky state representative Joshua Speed held ...