Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is doubtless one of the greatest speeches in world history. Short yet poignant, the speech delivered ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

Learn about Abraham Lincoln (sixteenth president, 1861–1865) through museum art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of ...