Lincoln Land Community College's Jacksonville campus honored its namesake president's 216th birthday Thursday with a ...

For years, Craig O’Neill has read to kids all over Arkansas, and now he has accomplished a goal that was a decade in the ...

Our columnist talks with one of Black History Month’s modern-day keepers about the work it takes to remember the past – and to carve out space for the future.

Presidents Day is around the corner, and that means many stores and businesses may be closed or have different hours to ...

The Los Angeles Opera dropped a contemplated world premiere for the second straight season in a cost-cutting move, and Missy Mazzoli’s “Lincoln in the Bardo” will instead open at New York’s ...

The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President ... Because he did not attend school for long, he practiced reading to improve his cognitive abilities. Prior to becoming a ...

He had learned these verses by heart; the tones of his mother’s voice was in them” (Abraham Lincoln; The Prairie Years). To Joshua Speed he once said, “I am profitably engaged in reading the ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned to ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

I am now reading Shelby Foote's three-volume "The Civil War: A Narrative." I am at the point where Abraham Lincoln has been nominated for a second term with Andrew Johnson, military governor of ...