He told the BBC that the doctored image was probably created "when demand for images of the martyred Lincoln peaked". While the President was famous for embracing photography as a means to ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

Images of Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying filled the popular press in the days following the assassination. The sudden and violent attack on the president came on Good Friday, the most somber day ...

The tradition of using a Bible during the swearing-in goes back to the very first inauguration, but not all Presidents have ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...