Honest Abe was no match for a D.C. heat wave. A six-foot-tall wax replica of the 16th president, created by artist Sandy Williams IV, was installed in February on in Northwest Washington, the ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860, the 11-year-old Grace Bedell claimed to have solved the problem of Lincoln’s face and wrote him a letter to tell him about it. The presidential ...

Abraham Lincoln richly deserves his own day instead of getting mashed into the employer-convenient “President's Day.” Doubtless he deserves his own holiday as a martyr fighting to preserve the union, ...

“I regard our emigrants as one of the principal replenishing streams appointed by Providence to repair the ravages of internal war.” That’s what Abraham Lincoln said eight score years ago about an ...

You know the world is an entertaining place to navigate for sure, and American politics is much better theater maybe than the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Politics is often fairly ...

Facebook has a problem with America’s greatest president. Abraham Lincoln’s run-in with the tech giant began late last year, when Republic Book Publishers decided to buy social media ads for my new ...

My boys are definitely history buffs. Throughout their young lives, they have been obsessed with different eras, geographies and world leaders. I would puff up with pride when my boys would drone on ...

At the Abe Lincoln Bowling Tourney in Springfield, Marquette's Logan Sherman runner-up in boys division, while Alton's ...

Few Americans realize that a great deal of our collective wealth — transcontinental infrastructure from national banks to railroads — emerged from a few laws signed into law by Abraham Lincoln during ...

The New York Times’ 1619 Project has aimed at nothing less than a revolutionary re-interpretation of the entirety of US history, “re-centering” ­African-Americans as the sole banner-carriers of ...