The head was noticeably falling off while the knees were breaking off and the chair was sinking. "This heat is relentless," Doran declared. "A wax sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in northwest DC has ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...

A wax effigy of President Abraham Lincoln has melted as temperatures soared ... off its torso and a foot turned into a blob. The chair sank into the ground. The head from the 6ft wax sculpture ...

Kenneth Winkle is chair of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln History Department and an Abraham Lincoln expert.