President's Day, celebrated on the third Monday of February, honors all U.S. presidents, particularly George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Initially recognized as Washington's Birthday ...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S craggy ... Few ever saw the beardless, relatively untried Lincoln opposite, which was displayed with a Lincoln’s Birthday flourish this week in Washington’s Corcoran ...

A new president's first speech to Congress is not designated a State of the Union address, coming so close to the Jan. 20 ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin, the famous historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln ... who wanted to commission a musical about Lincoln. He was happy for the work but daunted by the task.

The holiday now generally honors not only Washington but also Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday falls on February ... That’s our heritage, that’s our song. We sing it still.” ...