Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who ...

Johnson was the third vice president to become president, taking office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 ... Taylor’s body was exhumed in 1991 and tested.

1865: Otto von Bismarck is elevated to the rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen. On the same day, US President Abraham Lincoln dies nine hours after being shot while ttending the play “Our American ...

Next month, history buffs will have the opportunity to bid on the gloves that President Lincoln wore on the night of his ...

When Ari Siegel took the stage on a recent episode of “Shark Tank,” he was dressed as Abraham Lincoln, but with a Jewish twist: His outfit featured a kippah and a kapota, the black robe traditionally ...

The crown gem of the Lincoln collection from Connecticut's Univeristy Archives is an interpositive image of President Abraham ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives ...

He quotes Abraham Lincoln on his opposition to the decision in Dred Scott (1857), which he vowed at the time to reverse through legal means. But Lincoln was referring to a decision from the ...

On April 15, 2019, a devastating fire collapsed the roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral, but fire officials said they ...

“Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln” features items from the Lincoln Presidential Foundation, dating from the president’s early life through his deat ...

Call it “the Oh, Mary! effect” as questions around Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality are really having a moment in the culture, from Cole Escola’s hit Broadway show to last year’s documentary ...