A Chicago auction of Abraham Lincoln's personal items, including bloodstained gloves from the night of his assassination, ...

Following the Civil War and the assassination of the president, Douglas penned a letter that was republished in newspapers of ...

The anonymous “Paddle 1231” won most of the priciest artifacts, including a lock of Lincoln’s hair and a pair of ...

"The jokes are always so strong, but the surprising thing is that people have been so moved by the show as well," says Conrad Ricamora of the hit new play Oh, Mary! The actor stars opposite playwright ...

The 19th-century Whigs present an appealing prototype for moderate Democrats seeking a way out of their paralysis and for ...

The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln ...

Ari Siegel turned his love for history into History By Mail, a profitable subscription service that mails replicas of famous ...

Thomas Jefferson’s personally owned and signed copy of Cicero’s Ciceronis Oratione (“Orations”), in a six-volume set, acquired at auction directly from his personal library in 1829. Estimate: $150,000 ...

After her release, Mary Todd Lincoln lived a relatively quiet life, although she remained plagued by both psychiatric and ...

Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

The film chronicles the early life of Abraham Lincoln, born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky. It highlights his family's struggles during their westward migration, including the death of his mother ...