A Tamaqua barber possibly knew of the plot to kill President Abraham Lincoln, and did everything in his power to prevent it.

Mary and Abraham Lincoln had three surviving sons when they arrived at the White House in 1861: Robert, Willie, and Tad. Their second child, Edward, had died in 1850, at age three. The oldest, Robert ...

Portsmouth and the rest of the world felt the shock of Abraham Lincoln's ... The 39-year-old German immigrant had come to the city some 15 years before Lincoln's death. The 1850 U.S. Census ...

In the spring of 1859, Abraham Lincoln was invited by a committee of Boston Republicans to attend a festival in honor of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. He couldn’t make it.

Andrew Delbanco, author of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War discusses Abraham Lincoln's thoughts and writings on ...