Stephen Potter, a retired regional archaeologist for the service’s national capital region, cataloged some of the graffiti in ...

Forty-five feet below the Lincoln Memorial is art of a very different kind. On the pillars in the memorial's basement, where ...

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...

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He chose the second week of February for Negro History Week because of its link to Abraham Lincoln ... OUR ROOTS cartoon workshop for SMITHSONIAN- National Museum of African Art, Washington ...

The Oscar-winning actor reflects on a lifetime of work with the filmmaker, with whom she collaborated on 'Blue Velvet,' 'Wild ...

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Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky. He would go on to rank among the best presidents in U.S. history, and he still makes news headlines when referenced by today's politicians.

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

The new musical explores the complex friendship between the president and the famed abolitionist. We spoke with co-lyricist ...