The United States of America elected its first president in 1789. President Donald Trump was elected as the nation's 47th ...

Greatness often comes quietly and obscurely. Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president, was born on Sunday morning Feb. 12, ...

The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who ...

2007: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, which was the site of Abraham Lincoln’s June 16, 1858, “House Divided” speech.

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew freedom in. “There was never a question over whether I could vote when I ...

Gabbard advances: Senators voted on party lines to push forward the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic member ...

After going into the locker room, down six at the break Abraham Lincoln coach Jason Isaacson ... allowing just two points in the first three minutes of the second quarter as they would double ...

I can’t remember when I met Dr. Olivia Hooker, a Tulsa Massacre survivor, the first African American woman to serve in the ...

By TR Just like a myriad of other things, there is an amazing number of facts and trivia surrounding the U.S. Presidents ...

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

Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History is hallmarking Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday with the start of a coloring contest to celebrate Lincoln and work on a mural ...

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.