Americans could soon get the chance to walk by life-size statues of luminaries, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Muhammad Ali, after President Donald Trump’s “National Garden of American Heroes” was ...

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 ...

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Abraham Lincoln is well-known for his extraordinary political career. Elected twice by the American public, Lincoln's ...

One child is heard gasping and exclaiming, "Did Abraham Lincoln die?" as the rest of the class erupts into tears. Cal, clearly caught off guard, can be heard laughing in disbelief at the intense ...

When Abraham Lincoln died in 1865, felled by an assassin’s bullet at the end of the Civil War, he left behind a considerable legacy. But Lincoln did not leave behind many descendants. In 1985, the ...

President Lincoln did not defend (nor renounce) any doctrine that the executive could ignore court orders ruling that his suspension of habeas corpus was unlawful. That question, he left to the ages.

A 1915 silent film about the life of Abraham Lincoln, previously thought lost forever, was found on Long Island.

Lover of Men also argues that Lincoln's well-documented friendship with businessman Joshua Speed was more than just platonic. Some historians refer to him as the love of Lincoln's life.

His book on the intimate world of Abraham Lincoln took an even broader purview of Lincoln’s life [and] went beyond the relationship with Joshua Speed. Photo courtesy of Special Occasion Studios And ...