Pinkerton agent Kate Warne saved Abraham Lincoln's life in his first attempt on his life and was considered “the greatest ...

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

LAKE CITY — A bronze tablet mounted on red granite will commemorate Abraham Lincoln's 1861 visit ... at the town's rail depot enroute to his first inauguration. "I've always heard the story ...

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the ...

Barack Obama's trip to Clinton Thursday follows a visit to Rome and Cooperstown while he was in office. What other presidents have been here?

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had ... law and lost his first political race ...

During his first inaugural address, on March 4, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln referred to “the better angels of our nature.” The phrase was common at the time and Lincoln’s use of it urged ...

38th St. gem, in Murray Hill, once belonged to Mary “Mamie” Lincoln Isham, the granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln ... possibly one of Manhattan’s first. Up top, a rooftop terrace with planters ...