Abraham Lincoln, celebrated on his 216th birthday, left a significant impact as the 16th President of the US. Not only known ...

On this day 125 years ago the Black National Anthem was first performed, written by James Weldon Johnson and with music brother John Rosamond Johnson.

Thursday and Friday mark three days of memories, love, respect and sharing. Our 16th president was born on Feb. 12, Giving ...

Farmers in Lincoln, Nebraska started a food train to honor Abe’s birthday (Feb. 12) and collect donations to feed the ...

Phillip Stone, a Harrisonburg lawyer who has served as president of Bridgewater College and Sweet Briar College, holds an ...

Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week in 1926 to celebrate accomplishments of Black people who were called negroes at ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) invites the public to remember President Lincoln’s birthday this month with free events at state historic sites around Illinois including Vandalia.

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...

(Toronto Public Library) More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with President Abraham Lincoln ... by her children, and with ...

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin noted Abraham Lincoln ... at his rallies, promising to support the rioters’ legal fees with proceeds from the song. Patel even authored a trilogy of children ...