An anonymous buyer purchased the three top-selling items, including a pair of blood-stained gloves that the president had on ...

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...

The anonymous “Paddle 1231” won most of the priciest artifacts, including a lock of Lincoln’s hair and a pair of ...

Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

The items, which were intended to be part of a permanent collection at the Lincoln Presidential Foundation in Illinois, were ...

The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated have been sold for $1.52 million ...

Likewise, neither the governor’s office nor the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum would comment on the upcoming auction. A Pritzker spokesman also declined to say whether Illinois ...

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.

That’s about the same amount of time, for what it’s worth, between when Lincoln first ran for office (1832) and when he was elected to the Illinois House of Reps (1834). Honest Abe has loomed ...

Lincoln Artifacts A piece of Abraham Lincoln's coat ... where he established a law practice and lived while serving in the Illinois Legislature and briefly in Congress. The artifacts were supposed ...

Illinois, at Lincoln’s home, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and the Old State Capitol Historic Building. “The home was a very moving experience,” Wood said.