This year’s Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor,” focusing on the ways work impacts “the collective experiences of Black people,” according to the Association for the Study of ...

Six decades of films by the 95-year-old documentary master Frederick Wiseman have been restored and are screening at Lincoln Center.

Next year marks the 250th anniversary of the United States of America’s independence, and the Peoria Riverfront Museum has a year-long exhibit coming up to commemorate it. The exhibit named ...

The new musical explores the complex friendship between the president and the famed abolitionist. We spoke with co-lyricist ...

Film at Lincoln Center celebrates the documentarian's groundbreaking work this month with a retrospective featuring brand-new ...

In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what ...

BLOOMINGTON (25News Now) - Illinois’ favorite son President Abraham Lincoln’s 215th birthday is Wednesday, Feb. 12, but the celebrations got underway in Bloomington on Saturday. The David Davis ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is celebrating Lincoln’s birthday in a special way. ALPLM is offering two free admission days to attendees ...

The holiday that began as a tribute to the birthday of the nation's first ... Washington was born Feb. 22, 1732, and died Dec. 14, 1799. Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th U.S. president, leading ...

In Coles County, the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site will celebrate Lincoln’s birthday with refreshments and crafts. The site will be open for all to celebrate from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on ...