Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ... Lincoln was buried at last in Springfield on May 4, nearly three weeks after his death. Townsfolk draped black bunting over the simple frame house that ...

The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln’s death is being offered for sale ... It was written inside the home where Lincoln was rushed after being shot at Ford’s Theater ...

That’s the controversial conclusion reached by Palo Alto physician and amateur historian John Sotos, who says that President Abraham Lincoln ... grew depressed after the death of his son ...

That’s what people did after Lincoln’s death, and we continue to have reactions that are just as powerful — and complicated — today. Further reading: 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln was shot.

This is going to be a busy year for Doris Kearns Goodwin, who appears in both the Henry Louis Gates Jr. Lincoln special and the "American Experience" documentary, "The Assassination of Abraham ...

On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth ... and died the following morning at 7:22 am. Lincoln’s death plunged much of the country into despair, and the ...

April 15 marks the sesquicentennial of the death of President Abraham ... the farmer's sharpening stone after Lincoln volunteered to help with the scythe. Old Abe thought for a moment and said ...