When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and ...

that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Earlier that day, Lincoln was unusually cheerful. He had spoken with his son Robert that morning about his experience as a soldier, and General ...

His youngest son, Tad Lincoln, died in 1871. Lincoln suffered from “melancholia,” the nineteenth-century term for clinical depression. He would enter such bouts that would last for weeks on end.

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing ... of paper he folded down the middle to make his reading copy. “If we’re imagining that scene in our minds, Lincoln has that final paragraph,” Krowl ...