President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.

Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...

Need some inspiration for the hidden gifts within your mental health struggles? Lincoln and Darwin got you covered.

Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week in 1926 to celebrate accomplishments of Black people who were called negroes at ...

It’s a question that has plagued historians and journalists for decades. Now, the perpetual debate has reared its head once ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

The roots of Black History Month are credited with growing from Chicago’s Black History Weeks – thanks to the efforts of Carter G. Woodson- in the summer of 1915.

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything ... reinforced the most unflattering views of Mary Lincoln, in the biography he co-wrote in 1889 titled Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story ...

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...

“The first time I saw Abraham Lincoln ... According to the 1960 book Colonel Elmer Ellsworth: A Biography of Lincoln's Friend and First Hero of the Civil War by Ruth Painter Randall, Lincoln ...