In 1868, in addition to tending to his duties as a Republican U.S. senator from Massachusetts, Henry Wilson published the ...

Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. delivered a passionate and intimate eulogy for his father, civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, reflecting on what he believes is his real legacy in American ...

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address was truly prophetic—it revealed the spiritual meaning of the Civil War.

He's played but Walt Disney, Mr. Rogers and other real-life icons — but never a U.S. president. That's about to change, however, for Tom Hanks. The two-time Oscar winner, 69, is set to play Abraham ...

Tom Hanks will play a former U.S. president — and distant relation — in an upcoming biopic. Lincoln in the Bardo, based on George Saunders’ bestselling 2017 novel of the same name, will star Hanks, 69 ...

Mr. Kirchick is a contributing Opinion writer. In 2015, after Islamist gunmen murdered a dozen people in an attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, I joined the American chapter of PEN ...

Keens Steakhouse in New York City, owned by Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta, is displaying the American flag that draped over Abraham Lincoln's casket on one of its walls. The restaurant held an ...

A rare American flag that draped President Abraham Lincoln’s casket during his 1865 funeral procession has found a new home, at a Manhattan steakhouse. Keens Steakhouse, a 141-year-old Midtown ...

Americans overwhelmingly view former President Abraham Lincoln as an “outstanding” leader, while President Trump ranks near the bottom, according to a new poll. The YouGov survey, released Friday, ...

To commemorate President’s Day later this month, look no further than the steps of the courthouse in downtown Edwardsville. There you will find a plaque commemorating a speech given on that very spot ...

For generations, this imposing photograph of a clean-shaven Abraham Lincoln—age 51 and at the crest of newfound national fame—inexplicably remained an orphan in the Lincoln visual canon. Though ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the abolitionist, writer and presidential adviser Frederick Douglass in a bipartisan move brokered by ...