The face of Abraham Lincoln is so much with us, from Mount Rushmore to the penny, that it is easy to overlook anything human in it. Before we see wisdom, compassion, humor, sorrow, or any other quality, we see a symbol, as familiar in its outlines as the Statue of Liberty. Lincoln was a symbol in...

When a man called the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and claimed that his great-great grandfather had written a secret message in Lincoln's watch, curator Harry Rubenstein was intrigued. Listen as Harry explains the steps he took to verify this family folklore. This video...