NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham Lincoln, many images may come to mind: rail-splitter, country lawyer, young congressman, embattled president, Great Emancipator, assassin's victim ...

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford ... “Washington, April 14 – President Lincoln and wife, with other friends, this evening visited Ford’s Theatre for the purpose of witnessing ...

D.C., Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Explore the life of the president with a short biographical video and 'Bell Ringer' classroom assignments.

This week in history, on April 14, 1865, upon hearing the word “sockdologizing,” President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth inside Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. A print of ...