The National Portrait Gallery unveiled a rare portrait of President Abraham Lincoln on Friday, ahead of Lincoln’s 214th birthday. The nine-foot-tall portrait, painted by W.F.K. Travers in 1865 ...

The white leather gloves are stained with blood from the night Abraham Lincoln wore them to the theater. Even on a celebratory night marking an end to war, Lincoln disliked donning the flashy bit ...

As a young lawyer and politician, Abraham Lincoln engaged in a duel involving swords. However, he was not the one to make the challenge; his rival did. The two men faced off on a river island in ...

A statue of President Abraham Lincoln was vandalized in Chicago's Lincoln Park on Monday to protest an execution order he signed in 1862 that put 38 Native American men to death.

lincoln’s height was formidable, even before he put on his famous top hat. Photo of Abraham Lincoln taken by Alexander Gardner during the Civil War in 1862. | Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain ...

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.” ...

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 is perhaps the greatest presidential athlete in American history. Even though Dwight Eisenhower was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and Gerald Ford won two national ...

A statue of young Abraham Lincoln has been defaced with red paint and words referencing troubles with Native American tribes. The statue has stood in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood since the ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860, the 11-year-old Grace Bedell claimed to have solved the problem of Lincoln’s face and wrote him a letter to tell him about it. The ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky. He would go on to rank among the best presidents in U.S. history, and he still makes news headlines when referenced by today's politicians ...

The National Portrait Gallery will unveil a nine-foot-tall portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers on February 10. It’s a remarkable work with an even more remarkable backstory: ...