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 ...

This article was updated to reflect the 2022 season of "Exhumed." After somebody dies, we have a funeral and “lay the body to rest,” typically through burial or cremation. However, not everyone’s rest ...

Historians routinely rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest American president. But as the US grapples with its legacy of racism, Lincoln’s complex views are coming under scrutiny.

More than 1,000 high-resolution photos connected to Abraham Lincoln are now available online. The images have previously only been seen by researchers.

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.” ...

President Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., while he was attending a performance of "Our American Cousin," according to the Library of Congress.

HEALTH Presidential depression and Abraham Lincoln’s struggle with ‘melancholy’: What historians know A mental health expert reflects on how the 16th president lived with severe depression ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln’s bloodstained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction By . Associated Press. Published May 22, 2025, 7:37 a.m. ET.

Abraham Lincoln artifacts to be auctioned to pay off foundation’s debt. The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves ...

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 ...