“Now He Belongs to the Ages,” about President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train. Lincoln lived in Springfield, Illinois, when he was elected to the presidency in 1860. In early 1861, he ...

The story of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train will be the topic for the Vernon County Historical Society’s first free public program of 2025. Civil War historian and re-enactor Frederick ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National Cathedral and later by private family services and interment in Plains, Georgia.

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a renowned humanitarian, died at 100 years old on Dec. 29, 2024.

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

The tradition, however, was largely altered back in 1865 during the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln. “It was the first time that the President's body was moved by train," Michael Shymanski ...

A procession that begins at the president’s home makes its way to the US Capitol to have the coffin placed on the same platform used since it held Abraham Lincoln’s, then a state funeral at ...

Jimmy Carter's funeral takes place Thursday ... The tradition, which began with a one-day government shutdown following Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, is one of many ways the United ...

And on this day of mourning, in a display of unity and continuity, they dressed up for a funeral and said farewell ... It reinforces the notion that Abraham Lincoln spoke of so many years ago ...

It reinforces the notion that Abraham Lincoln spoke of so many years ago ... draped casket after speaking during Carter’s state funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday.