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

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 ...

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.