The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln's death is being offered for sale by a Philadelphia documents dealer. Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection, says the telegram was ...

On April 27th, 1865, Abraham Lincoln paid his last visit to Buffalo. And on April 14th, 1865 he was shot dead in Washington DC. Something about these numbers doesn’t seem to add up right. Stay ...

Plotz got to see Lincoln's writing on the document during a recent tour of the National Archives vaults (hence the post.) As Plotz writes: I guess it's not surprising that the author of the Gettysburg ...

“Abraham Lincoln died this morning at 22 minutes after seven.” Ten words that changed the course of history. It was written on a telegram on April 15, 1865 — the morning after Lincoln was shot by John ...

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April 14, 1865, got off to a far better start than most days in the White House Mary Todd Lincoln. Sadly, it would be an all-too-brief moment of happiness before the day ended in unimaginable fashion, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. After Lincoln’s assassination, ...