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 ...

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ... perhaps a million Americans filed past the open coffin to glimpse their fallen leader’s face. Millions more—as much as one-third of the North’s ...

After the public pays its respects in the Capitol Rotunda and services at the National Cathedral, Carter will be laid to rest ...