How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

Lincoln is considered one of our greatest presidents for ending slavery and guiding the nation through the Civil War. He is ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in commemoration of ...

President Trump said Wednesday he and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will “fix” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. The president posted a video of workers attending to the pool, ...

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the ...

MINSK, 23 November (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on his birthday, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian ...

Thanksgiving is next Thursday, Nov. 27, but another tradition is typically celebrated at the White House just a few days before the holiday: the presidential turkey pardon. The tradition of a White ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- Eve Carson is frozen in time as the bubbly, beloved UNC student body President. A bright future was cut short in 2008, when she was kidnapped, robbed, and murdered, ...

Today, our Nation marks the 162nd anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the brief yet immortal speech through which President Abraham Lincoln transformed a battlefield of sacrifice into a hallowed ...

MINSK, 17 November (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has extended greetings to President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of Algeria on his 80th birthday, BelTA learned from the press service of ...

A UFC fighter says Trump’s White House birthday brawl is nothing more than a billionaire vanity show, and he wants no part of it. “Like I don’t give a f--- to fight for a bunch of billionaires and ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has acquired a 1861 letter from Abraham Lincoln, offering insight into race, class and presidential power in the early days of his presidency.