Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s ...

Abraham Lincoln is best known for his role as a wartime president, but his economic policies were a precursor to the New Deal ...

Abraham Lincoln changed the course of history not through brute assertion of power but by wrestling with its limits.

Abraham Lincoln’s coffin from the White House to the Capitol Rotunda on April 19, 1865. Though less well known, Brig. Gen. William A Nichols was also a pallbearer to the fallen president ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

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 ...

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington, D.C., on this day in history, April 15, 1865, one day after he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln, who was elected president in 1860 ...

(NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY) By a historical twist of fate, Weaver would also be one of Lincoln’s last defenders. On April 14, 1865, Weaver was in Ford’s Theatre in Washington for the play “Our ...

Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished actor, southern sympathizer, and likely spy before shooting President Lincoln in April 1865. The ninth of 10 ...

Lincoln's statement, however ... Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the same number ...

We don’t know everything about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and, despite the release of a ton of new documents, we never will.