Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865. In a meeting at City Point, Virginia ...

Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14, 1865. America’s 16th president was 42 days into his second term and would ...

Once war broke out, the pair became friends and remained so until Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865. He is the only president to hold a patent Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president to ...

The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, shortly after the Civil War ended. It details his humble beginnings in ...

Betty Gilpin is currently playing the titular character in the hit musical, which follows Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln's 1865 assassination ...

On April 14, 1865, Weaver was in Ford’s Theatre in ... “John Weaver was the first and last volunteer for Abraham Lincoln,” wrote Downey, whose collection of Civil War writings was donated ...

On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in states rebelling against the Union “are, and henceforward shall be free.” He issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in ...