Beneath the Lincoln Memorial is one of Washington's best-kept secrets: the Undercroft, a soaring 50,000-square-foot ...

Was Abraham Lincoln the original log cabin Republican? We hear tell that a new documentary on Honest Abe posits that the 16th president was gay. Promo copy for the new project, “Lover of Men: The ...

Lincoln was shot in the back of the head with a .44 derringer pistol on the night of April 14, 1865, at approximately 10:20 p.m. while attending "Our American Cousin," a play at the Ford’s Theater in ...

Here’s a titillating tale from the crypt. Experts believe the Lincoln Memorial sits above a racy secret. Forty-five feet below the iconic sculpture of the former president is the sketch of a woman ...

Behind Abraham Lincoln’s head on Mount Rushmore is a hidden room—sealed off from the public. It was meant to house America’s most important documents, including the Constitution and Declaration of ...

1861. Allan Pinkerton -- George Sharpe -- Elizabeth Van Lew -- Lafayette Baker -- Secret Service -- Bull Run -- The Ohio Department -- Washington -- "Enemies of the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History announced it has found a “secret” message engraved in President Abraham Lincoln’s watch by a watchmaker who was repairing it in 1861 when news of ...