On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

The funeral train carrying the remains of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln passes through the Upper Mohawk Valley region on its 1,700-mile journey from Washington to Springfield, Illinois.

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

Exarch Joseph Haggar will be held at St. Basil the Great Melkite Greek Catholic Church on Saturday.Known to his parishioners ...

Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s funeral in 1865. Library ofCongress. Nichols also informed the nation’s armed forces of the succession of Andrew Johnson to the presidency. Nichols served as Chief of ...

Wayne C. "Doc" Temple, the indefatigable Abraham Lincoln scholar who wrote more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and ...

“That’s pathetic,” McClure said of the video not working. “This is where President Abraham Lincoln, one of the most famous people to ever live, started his career in politics, and you can ...