The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.

But patriotism’s home base clearly is the United States. Fully half of Americans think their country is the best on Earth, ...

Biden commemorates Juneteenth in Texas as Trump claims there are ‘too many’ holidays in the U.S. - Biden criticized those who say ‘Juneteenth doesn't deserve to be a federal holiday’ ...

In May 1865, the national government threw itself a parade. It had been more than a month since the rebellion in defense of slavery was finally put down. It had been more than a month since the ...

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before or since. The Civil War had killed over 600,000 Americans, North and ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration.

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

I decided, the other evening, to walk to the Lincoln Memorial. It sits at one end of the National Mall with the Capitol at the other; had Donald Trump opted to deliver his second inaugural address ...

With Tuesday marking the 161st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address, Lincoln historian Steve Beckett shares with us a speech he delivered last month to a large crowd in the ...

All episodes Details Transcript August 14, 2024 In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote a scathing letter to his top Union general, who had squandered an opportunity to end the American ...

Opinion In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one. Lincoln’s opponents turned his ‘house divided’ speech against him.

Many local residents have heard something about Abraham Lincoln’s so-called “Lost Speech,” delivered in downtown Bloomington on May 29, 1856. Yet most folks don’t know the story about the ...