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

Two supplemental volumes of "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," long-overlooked in digital archives, are being made available online by the Abraham Lincoln Association. Since their original ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

The film explores the life of Abraham Lincoln, highlighting his humble beginnings as a poor farm boy in Kentucky, his limited formal education, and his self-driven quest for knowledge. It emphasizes ...

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

While the Kennedys and Trumps of the world were born to wealthy families with large estates, other presidents had far more ...

This coming Monday we celebrate Presidents’ Day, which honors the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, both born in February. On Presidents’ Day we reflect on the lives ...

The Danville that Abraham Lincoln knew is gone. With very few exceptions, all of the houses, churches, shops, schools and storefronts have been torn down and hauled off.

Presidents Day is Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. The name Presidents Day became the unofficial name with the changing the date of the holiday, according to the National Archives. With the holiday moved to the ...

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.

"I have lost this battle because my force was too small. The Government must not & cannot hold me responsible for the result . . . . I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than ...

Observer welcomes Louis Masur who writes and lectures about a range of topics including Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the Founding Fathers, visual culture, and the history of Rock and Roll.