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 ...

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.

Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History is hallmarking Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday with the start of a coloring contest to celebrate Lincoln and work on a mural ...

On an otherwise normal day last February, Lincoln’s Opa picked him up from the school bus stop at the end of the family’s ...

Lincoln gave that latter speech on the other side of the Capitol from where inaugurations are now usually conducted. There’s a photo of the event, in the blurry, crowded style of the era.

Four years later, with the Union on the verge of victory over the Confederacy, Lincoln gave a much shorter but no less powerful speech. He assailed the stain of slavery, but offered a conciliatory ...

Goodwin House Alexandria hosted a panel on Jan. 30, honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. through the ...