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.

America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln ... his childhood with his father and siblings in the family's Pigeon Creek log cabin, the Indiana Department of Administration reports on its website ...