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Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ... During the weeks after Lincoln’s death, as his funeral train made a circuitous journey from Washington, D.C., back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois ...
On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?
The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...
A licensed embalmer Lee Eutsey shared his findings about the surgeons who conducted Lincoln's autopsy and the mystery of the ...
Wayne C. "Doc" Temple, the indefatigable Abraham Lincoln scholar who wrote more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and book reviews, died in Chatham on March 31. Temple was 101 and still writing ...