The larger-than-life legacy of Abraham Lincoln lies, in part, in the smallest special-collections division of the University ...

1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...

CHICAGO – A trove of historic artifacts and memorabilia associated with President Abraham Lincoln were auctioned off for nearly $8 million on Wednesday.The items, which were intended to be part ...

A pair of blood-stained gloves that Abraham Lincoln had when he was assassinated at Freeman’s-Hindman Auction House in West Loop, Chicago, May 15, 2025 (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP ...

The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold.

The banner, plus another featuring President Abraham Lincoln hanging a few columns away, was installed last week in honor of the department’s 163rd birthday and will be up “for the coming ...

In Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow-Up, a fashion photographer enlarges a series of pictures he’s taken and discovers he may have inadvertently witnessed a murder. His reconstruction of ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860, the 11-year-old Grace Bedell claimed to have solved the problem of Lincoln’s face and wrote him a letter to tell him about it. The ...

Some of the items date back to the president’s teenage days. In one of the documents, a 15-year-old Lincoln writes: “Abraham Lincoln is my name / And with my pen I wrote / the same / I wrote ...

“He loved to impersonate Lincoln,” she said of Francis Ford, who also loved making pictures about the Civil War. In 1917, Ford quit Universal Pictures and started his own brick-and-mortar studio.

More than 1,000 high-resolution photos connected to Abraham Lincoln are now available online. ... Old Bob, Lincoln's carriage horse, is represented in an 1865 photo with then owner John Flynn.

Abraham Lincoln, William Judkins Thomson, half-plate ambrotype, 1858 National Portrait Gallery. When presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln arrived at Mathew Brady’s New York City studio to pose ...