DURING America’s civil war, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln reportedly began sharing a bed with his bodyguard, a soldier named David Derickson. The tittle-tattle was recorded in the diary of Virginia ...

I was once at a wedding reception and had to introduce myself to the men on both sides of me at the table. Unbelievable as it may seem, on my left was an astrophysicist; on my right a neurosurgeon.

In his 1863 Gettysburg Address, he argued that the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln ...

The subject weighs heavily on both of our minds tonight. Earlier that day, we toured the one and only home that Abraham and Mary Lincoln would ever own. Purchased from Reverend Charles Dresser on ...

Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln? American presidents John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln share some seriously freaky coincidences despite living some 100 years apart from each other. Aside from ...

National Museum of American History Abraham Lincoln's Watch, around 1858 National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of James Brown, Civil War veteran, with a picture of Abraham ...

Yakubu Gowon, former military head of state, says he does not mind being called the “Abraham Lincoln of Nigeria” due to ...

Yakubu Gowon, former military head of state, says he doesn't mind being called the "Abraham Lincoln of Nigeria" ...

A new exhibition in New York City uses more than 200 texts and artifacts to contemplate Lincoln's rise to the nation's highest office Sarah Kuta Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...

Life of Abraham Lincoln | Death of Abraham Li ... The number also had to be small because it had to look as if Lincoln expected a short and swift war, to keep morale up.

What Hiser discovered was an 1865 American presentation flag that she now believes was draped over the coffin of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on the long train trip back to Springfield ...