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, ...

Lincoln’s 272 words — which some of us memorized and certainly can recite phrases — have become enshrined as a sort of civic prayer for unity and direction for a nation in 1863 starkly and ...

The Massachusetts Bay colonists themselves regarded a "day of solemn prayer" declared ... began in 1863. On Oct. 3 of that year, President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation that Nov. 26 ...

Sarah Josepha Hale wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln on September 28, 1863, requesting the last ... of the Catholic Church and any day of prayer held on a Friday would have had Rome ...

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

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

In the new documentary Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln, a group of scholars argue that the 16th President of the United States had sexual relationships with multiple men during ...

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 ...

The video above is from a previous story. CINCINNATI (WXIX) -Faith leaders in Lincoln Heights united the public on Sunday for a prayer vigil and march, hoping to inspire a call to action after a ...