Forty-five feet below the Lincoln Memorial is art of a very different kind. On the pillars in the memorial's basement, where ...

Stephen Potter, a retired regional archaeologist for the service’s national capital region, cataloged some of the graffiti in ...

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts ...

Late last year, residents of Salem, Ohio, unveiled a new statue of Abraham Lincoln as part of a memorial plaza dedicated to America’s 16th president. It is a fitting reminder of the community’s ...

Columnist Charita Goshay writes that a new statue of Abraham Lincoln in Salem reminds us of the promise and power of the American presidency.

Every year since 1976, regardless of the weather, Phil Stone has come to the cemetery on the Lincoln Homestead to honor ...

On this day in history, groundbreaking started for the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. Crews started construction of the Lincoln Memorial on Abraham Lincoln’s 105th birthday — Feb. 12, 1914. The memorial was ...

Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

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

All across Illinois, state historic sites are celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. The Illinois Department of Natural ...

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two new plays about her, she is finally getting better press. During last ...