Thanksgiving brings families together to share rich meals featuring turkey, stuffing, and seasonal décor like pumpkins and warm autumn colors.

Thanksgiving which often marks the beginning of an over-indulgent holiday season is that time of the year which most of us await. No one wants to think of following a diet or stay away from food ...

For decades after that, the date and even the month of Thanksgiving moved around, with each president having to set the date every year. President Abraham Lincoln was the first to try to establish ...

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 ...

It was an early Thanksgiving morning start for Lincoln High School seniors Lauryn Lidel and Annabelle Johnson. “We woke up at 3 a.m. and we had a meeting at 3:55 a.m. with everyone just to make ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two new plays about her, she is finally getting better press. During last ...

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 ...

The 16-millimeter film is believed to be the only known surviving copy of "The Heart of Lincoln," a silent movie about the life of President Abraham Lincoln and American life during the Civil War.