The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.

Monday is Presidents’ Day. And while there doesn’t seem to be much agreement as to whether it is meant to celebrate the lives ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

This is the week we recall the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Although we don’t single out his birthday as a nation any longer, ...

When we think of the most legendary presidents our nation has had, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, ...

Abraham Lincoln loved to eat—and he also wasn’t afraid to throw on an apron and cook. Here are a few of the foods he enjoyed ...

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

It’s a question that has plagued historians and journalists for decades. Now, the perpetual debate has reared its head once ...

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

Presidents Day is a federal holiday celebrated each year in mid-February to honor past U.S. presidents. Locally, it's part of ...

Saturday’s ice storm left Salem’s own Abraham Lincoln in a deep freeze Sunday afternoon. (Photo courtesy of Jim Swetye) ...