In light of President Donald Trump's desire to eliminate the penny, it's noteworthy that one of the most significant coins ...

The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln ... office on March 4, 1861, and by then ...