While at the Library of Congress, Ari Siegel encountered a handwritten letter from Abraham Lincoln, and said the experience taught him that primary source documents were the key to learning history.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater in Washington at half-past nine o’clock last night, and at about the same time Secretary Seward, was attacked in his sick room and his throat ...

The bullet entered the back of his head ... inflicting terrible wounds. The statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington.Credit: J. Scott Applewhite By this time ...

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When Ari Siegel took the stage on a recent episode of “Shark Tank,” he was dressed as Abraham Lincoln, but with a Jewish twist: His outfit featured a kippah and a kapota, the black robe ...