CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In this online workshop, Museum Educator Jeff Meade uses images on United States postage stamps to create topical stamp collections based on the ...

The complexities of leadership often manifest most vividly during times of crisis, where the decisions of a leader can reverberate through history. Abraham Lincoln, during the tumultuous years of the ...

When Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. furnished the Oval Office after stepping into the presidency, he included a bust and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The Washington Post published a report by historian ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...

In “Abraham Lincoln’s Unchurched Faith” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 9), Allen Guelzo draws conclusions about Lincoln’s church attitudes without noting the president’s experience at the New York Avenue ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what kind of ...

One hundred sixty-three years after multiple Southern states seceded from the Union rather than accept a new president who was hostile to slavery, the origin of the Civil War is looming over another ...

The tradition officially began in 1989, but U.S. presidents have been presented with turkeys for decades.