I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

While the 4th of July is traditionally marked with fireworks and explosive displays of celebration, there are plenty who'd ...

The Elgin Master Chorale is unveiling its 2025-26 season, “Voices of America.” In celebration of the United States’ ...

Pioneer Song: a Celebration of Lincoln Amphitheatre Musicals will focus on and feature the music, history, and storytelling ...

Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school and stood for what is dubbed the unofficial Black national ...

As he came into public view in 1860, jokes about Lincoln’s appearance abounded. A popular anti-Lincoln song imagined his supporters begging not to have his picture shown.

The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon Sengbloh — will play at La Jolla Playhouse through March 30.

On board the USS Abraham Lincoln, the ship’s crew in the navigation bridge maneuvers the Lincoln in preparation for entering the channel into San Diego Bay on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Coronado.

Lincoln has inspired symphonies by Daniel Gregory Mason, Russell Bennett, Silas Pratt; a Requiem (on the Gettysburg Address) by Rubin Goldmark; an Abraham Lincoln Song (to Walt Whitman’s O Captain!