“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

Abraham Lincoln, master inventor: ... much of which was spent reading and writing even when his family wanted him engaged in physical labor. Like many daydreaming youths throughout history, ...

On this day in history, Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln — America's 16th president — was born in Kentucky. He spent his childhood in the wilderness of 19th-century Indiana before turning to ...

John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. ... 1:44 p.m. March 15, 2024 Former slave Mary Simms is shown reading in the series but it is unclear if that is historically accurate.

February 12, 1809, was the day Abraham Lincoln was born. ... Because he did not attend school for long, he practiced reading to improve his cognitive abilities.

The first Abraham Lincoln Remembrance Day since 2020 will be held Sunday at the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood, featuring a recitation of the Gettysburg Address by a Lincoln tribute artist.

Abraham Lincoln loved kittens and smelled of wood smoke; ... a sample catalog found lying around the studio that father and son pretended to be reading. It was all part of Lincoln’s image-making.

“My object in reading these resolutions,” Douglas declared, “was to put the question to Abraham Lincoln this day, whether he now stands and will stand by each article in that creed and carry ...