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 ...

Both the president and Mary have said they have received several visits from their son Willie after his death ... of her bed. In 1862, the third child of the 16th president Abraham Lincoln ...

When first published, in hard cover in 2015, our reviewer observed that, in her remarkably revealing and detailed account of the events surrounding Lincoln’s assassination ... had sometimes napped in ...

“People were still getting notice of their loved ones’ dying,” says historian Martha Hodes, author of Mourning Lincoln, a new book on the president’s death and its aftermath. “Lincoln ...

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 ...