Guests danced until 4:00 a.m. when President Abraham Lincoln held his second inaugural ball at the Patent Office Building, March 6, 1865. Illustrated London News, April 1865/National Portrait ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

On May 30, Abraham Lincoln signed a law awarding ... South would be to create a new loyal Black electorate. A 1918 portrait of Lincoln highlights the final lines of his second Inaugural Address.

A licensed embalmer Lee Eutsey shared his findings about the surgeons who conducted Lincoln's autopsy and the mystery of the ...

Will that last sentence reveal a coherence in the portrait that he will have painted ... to believe that LBJ deserves a place alongside Lincoln (who also had his own racial “issues”) as ...

Like many in America, Todd Martens grew up with parents who devoted the bulk of their vacation time to Disney’s theme parks. He now understands them as places to make sense of the world rather ...