They were Denton Offutt, owner and commander of the boat; Abraham Lincoln, whose exploit with the auger had already made him conspicuous; John Hanks, a distant cousin to Lincoln; and John D.

“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print” is on view ... a historian at Dickinson College, told Smithsonian magazine’s Fergus M. Bordewich in 2008. “The key question facing him before the ...

The seven-part limited true crime series is not only about the hunt for Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, but also the ...

History remembers Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, but what were his actual views of black Americans? How did Lincoln feel about slavery? He detested it. Abraham Lincoln considered the ...