Greatness often comes quietly and obscurely. Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president, was born on Sunday morning Feb. 12, ...

The United States of America elected its first president in 1789. President Donald Trump was elected as the nation's 47th ...

The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who ...

2007: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, which was the site of Abraham Lincoln’s June 16, 1858, “House Divided” speech.

Gabbard advances: Senators voted on party lines to push forward the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic member ...

After going into the locker room, down six at the break Abraham Lincoln coach Jason Isaacson ... allowing just two points in the first three minutes of the second quarter as they would double ...

By TR Just like a myriad of other things, there is an amazing number of facts and trivia surrounding the U.S. Presidents ...

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

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 ...

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.

This Presidents Day, on Monday, Feb. 17, at 2 p.m., The Park Theatre in Jaffrey will host a free screening of the 1930 classic film “Abraham Lincoln” directed by D.W.

"I have lost this battle because my force was too small. The Government must not & cannot hold me responsible for the result . . . . I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than ...