This is Old News, our weekly procession through the past. The timeline: John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre on April 14; he died the next morning. Western newspapers learned ...

Abraham Lincoln is responsible for one of the boldest and most far-reaching uses of executive powers in American history by his announcement that enslaved people would soon be "forever free" on ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what ...