U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents.

Lincoln was sailing up the Great Lakes on his way home from Congress in 1848 when he witnessed another steamer that was aground. The scene led Lincoln to develop an invention to float ships off shoals ...

Throughout history, American presidents who have an understanding of rural America and the farmers and ranchers living there ...

Today is Presidents Day, which marks the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. While most restaurants, grocery stores, and retail stores will be open today, banks, post offices, the ...

This year 158 students submitted essays addressing this year’s topic: how the writer has seen the country’s polarization ...

Based on your favorite U.S. president, here's a food to try. Abraham Lincoln was the king of simple foods. While many leaders ...

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...

His loyalties were to his nation and its young and fragile Constitution. Eventually, he put meaning to those loyalties by voluntarily choosing not to run for a third term. That set a precedent ...

The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon ...

The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art ...

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their ...