Private Funeral: A smaller ... and tests conclusively showed he had not been poisoned. Abraham Lincoln (16th President) was the first president to have his body lie in state at the U.S. Capitol ...

America is remembering former President Jimmy Carter ahead of Thursday’s funeral service at the National Cathedral in Washington and his burial back home in Georgia. Presidential funerals have a ...

“The funeral can be a way to connect someone with the past,” Kondik said. “After (President John F. Kennedy) was assassinated, Jackie Kennedy wanted the White House to look the way it had when Abraham ...

Our first history program of the year will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m., at the Vernon County History Center in ...

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

A national day of mourning is a day to honor and pay respects to a revered public figure who has died. Here's what else to know.

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 Freder ...