This story appears in the April 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. The black box nestles deep beneath the U.S. Capitol, encased behind thick glass, caged by a metal grille, as if it were ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never ... call from James Wheeler of Des Moines whose father was Lincoln's White House gardener [Thomas G. Wheeler]. James Wheeler knew ...

(Toronto Public Library) More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with President Abraham Lincoln continue to fascinate people.