Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Executive orders have shaped U.S. history, from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to FDR's New Deal. Recent presidents, ...

President Abraham Lincoln called for a National Day of humiliation, fasting and prayer for the end of the Civil War, a time of great distress and death for our nation. Today, ...

When Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, it took just six years before the first American football game was played on the holiday. My question is, what took so long?

Why did Abraham Lincoln pardon a turkey ... including a very special one that arrived in late 1863. Although Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday that year, a turkey was gifted to the ...

On February 1, 2003, the world lost Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla and six other crew members aboard the Space ...

Hegseth has made plain that his goal is to enhance the unbridled “lethality” of American military forces without handcuffs imposed by the law of armed conflict.

“We the people of the United States …” The notion that our government is comprised of citizens who rule themselves was repeated in President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address when ...

Abraham Lincoln is considered perhaps the most effective chief executive in the history of the United States. But one area ...