In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...

It was with good reason that Lincoln, as devoted a student of the Declaration of Independence as any American president—with the possible exception of its author, Thomas Jefferson—pointed to the ...

There’s something magical about discovering a place that feels like it was waiting just for you to find it. Lincoln State Park in Lincoln City, Indiana, is exactly that kind of treasure.

Lincoln was a better speechwriter than speaker. Normally, the success of a speech depends in considerable part on the speaker's voice and presence.

That night, President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln attended a performance of the British comedy, Our American Cousin, at Ford’s Theater.

Trump is no Abraham Lincoln Editor: In time for Lincoln’s birthday, I have a thought for everyone. Lincoln appealed to “the better angels of our nature.” Trump, it’s been said, gives ...

For Lincoln, Thanksgiving was a day to not only reflect on our blessings but repent for our shortcomings and find ways to seek reconciliation to God and to our neighbors.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Four score and seven years from now, the mystic chords of memory may recall the way Donald Trump compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, lauded him one day and lambasted ...

Abraham Lincoln’s arguments against slavery in his first debate with Stephen Douglas in Ottawa, Illinois, would make him a national figure.

From there, students learn about Abraham Lincoln’s first uses of the telegraph during the American Civil War by watching and responding to four video clips.

The Real History Behind Apple TV+’s ‘Manhunt’ and the Search for Abraham Lincoln’s Killer A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton’s hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in ...