There’s something magical about discovering a place that feels like it was waiting just for you to find it. Lincoln State Park in Lincoln City, Indiana, is exactly that kind of treasure.

From “White House Down” to “Heads of State” to “Independence Day,” the movie presidents we’d most want to see in charge. Now ...

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

Nearly two and a half centuries ago — in an era of quill pens, muskets and horse-drawn conveyances — America became the first modern democracy, founded on a belief in ...

First a disclaimer: America has been responsible for appalling savagery in the past 250 years. There is no sugar-coating our ...

Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation ...

As I look around my office in downtown El Dorado, it is obvious that I am a serious collector and may border on being a fanatical one, as the extent of my collections are nearly equal to that of a ...

Lincoln surrounded himself with strong, capable people. Lincoln assembled a “team of rivals” in his cabinet, which had former ...

A kindergarten art teacher has left internet viewers in stitches after sharing her students' unexpectedly emotional reaction to learning about the fate of former President Abraham Lincoln. Cal ...

Pamela and John Voehl, Mary and Abe Lincoln presenters from Colorado, pose for a portrait during a Civil War Ball at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Kalamazoo on Friday, April 25, 2025.

Lincoln never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead just past 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865. “Now he belongs to the ages,” Secretary of War Edwin Stanton said.

Abraham Lincoln loved to eat—and he also wasn’t afraid to throw on an apron and cook. Here are a few of the foods he enjoyed most. According to the 16th president’s last bodyguard, Colonel ...