What you should know about Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and "Lincoln Portrait" and Shostakovich’s monumental Fifth ...

Frederick Douglass was the first black man to discuss politics alone with the president. In Lincoln, the reformer found an ...

While the Presidency is today associated with wealth and fame, many early U.S. Presidents came from humble backgrounds and ...

The Tony-winning play paints Abraham Lincoln's wife as a boozy aspiring actress, but how does history really remember her? Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an ...

After a long treatise on the illegality of secession, Lincoln closed with a single flourish. His plea to the “better angels of our nature” is so familiar that we can miss the very particular ...

On a Saturday evening in 1838, a young Illinois state legislator ascended the pulpit of his hometown Baptist church to deliver a lecture before the Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum. Abraham Lincoln’s ...

Charlie Kirk's widow revealed he might have sought the presidency, driven by conviction, not ambition. President Trump honored the late MAGA commentator with a Rose Garden ceremony on his birthday, ...

Farrah Abraham's daughter is marking a major milestone—just in time for Halloween. Sophia Abraham, 16, debuted six black bats—three inked on either side of her abdomen—in an Oct. 8 TikTok alongside ...

The school district pulled the Railsplitters from all competition following a violent altercation with Northeast High that erupted after their October 4 matchup The Lincoln Railsplitters have seen the ...

(JTA) — As the last of the Israeli hostages were released from Gaza, President Donald Trump addressed the country’s parliament — and was given a hero’s welcome. Trump’s speech to the Knesset on Monday ...

Donald Nieman receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is affiliated with Braver Angels. Bipartisan agreement is rare in these ...