This month marks the 165th anniversary of one of the most pivotal moments in American history, the inauguration of a Kentucky-born president who would lead the nation through some of its darkest days: ...
Portraying President Abraham Lincoln has led actors to great acclaim. In 2013, Daniel Day-Lewis won his third acting Oscar for playing the 16th U.S. president in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. Now, ...
Mary Shipman Andrews' 1906 story about Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" sold 600,000 copies and was assigned reading for ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – President Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address will be reenacted in November as part of the ...
John Wilkes Booth will forever be known as the infamous assassin who killed Abraham Lincoln—but he didn’t act alone. Lewis Powell, Mary Surratt, John Surratt, David Herold, and George Atzerodt each ...
A rare American flag that draped President Abraham Lincoln’s casket during his 1865 funeral procession has found a new home, at a Manhattan steakhouse. Keens Steakhouse, a 141-year-old Midtown ...
Lincoln University is the first degree-granting historically Black college in this nation, founded in 1854, a full decade before the emancipation of the race. More audacious than its founding was its ...
A scan through the statements of President Abraham Lincoln reveals a man who underwent some very dark days. Consider, at the start of the War Between the States, Lincoln was resolute and visionary.