President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln hired a man from Stroudsburg to represent him in the military? The grave of that man, John Summerfield Staples, can be found in his hometown. Why ...

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is finalizing a six-year project that will make documents from a national Civil War veterans group available to researchers, according to the museum.

Bullet to the brain, from one farm boy to another. When John Wilkes Booth fired a .44 lead ball into Abraham Lincoln’s head, the murder shook a nation to its core and led to 13 days of bedlam rivaling ...