Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural took place in an atmosphere of crisis and foreboding, heightened by the armed troops that patrolled the streets and the Capitol grounds. South Carolina seceded from ...

President Barack Obama used Abraham Lincoln’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bibles at his swearing in ceremony in 2013, two presidents used a chair George Washington sat in at his inaugural and George ...

LAKE CITY — A bronze tablet mounted on red granite will commemorate Abraham Lincoln's 1861 visit to Lake City. The tablet will tell the story of Lincoln's stop at the town's rail depot enroute to his ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This lithograph accompanied the music for a “grand march” celebrating the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in March ...

Barack Obama, who will be sworn in as the nation's 44th -- and first African-American -- president Tuesday. And the obsession is certainly not lost on the president-elect. On January 10, he and his ...

The stone-mounted tablet will be placed near the site of the former Girard Station, where Lincoln's inaugural train made a stop. Nathan Koble is spearheading the project and is donating the memorial ...