To understand how a department store that opened when Abraham Lincoln was still a private citizen created America’s ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in commemoration of ...

This Thanksgiving, we can be thankful for Sarah Hale, the 34-year-old widow who advocated for a permanent holiday, and for President Lincoln, who said yes.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated ...

The shrine’s annual re-enactment of the Gettysburg address, delivered by Lincoln at a cemetery dedication in Gettysburg, ...