"I wanted to rush right down to the museum and touch it, hear it, smell it, rejoice in it and thank all who have turned a ...

The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.

In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...

If I forget thee,” Abraham Lincoln thought, speaking not at this moment of God’s Law but of the doctrine of the Declaration ...

Abraham Lincoln is well-known for his extraordinary political career. Elected twice by the American public, Lincoln's ...

As America approaches 2025, Abraham Lincoln's prescient words about internal destruction of democracy resonate amid growing ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

Roger Q. Mason’s stage play and film Lavender Men considers Abraham Lincoln's love life and interrogates American mythology.

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The spring of 1865 in Washington had been unusually mild. Temperatures on April 14 climbed to 71 degrees, according to the reading by the US Naval Observatory that day. The capital’s lilacs ...

On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months. Five volunteer companies from Pe… ...