A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

Celebrate Juneteenth, stay up late at the Smithsonian’s Solstice Saturday, dance at an outdoor concert or sample barbecue on Pennsylvania Avenue.

D.C. A giant Trump photo overlooks the National Mall. Not everyone is pleased. New banners on a U.S. Department of Agriculture building stir reactions from bewilderment to disgust to respect.

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The collection’s original owner is “appalled.” ...

The foundation has never publicly acknowledged that the hat may not have been Abraham Lincoln’s. But a 2013 report by officials at the Chicago History Museum and Smithsonian, which was first disclosed ...

Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

The atmosphere was raucous. Banners proclaimed: "Douglas the Dead Dog—Lincoln the Living Lion," and "Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln." Estimates of the crowd ranged up to 25,000.

A young war-horse helped Phil Sheridan win the day in the Shenandoah Valley and, made famous by a poem, helped Abraham Lincoln win re-election John Fleischman November 1996 ...

On April 11, 1865, he told us, Abraham Lincoln appeared there and gave a speech. "It was the first time he had said in public that blacks should get the vote," Pitch explained.

Zeller reasoned that Lincoln rode on horseback to the ceremony while wearing a top hat and white riding gloves. Gardner, he deduced, had taken rapid-fire photos of the faraway president.