Donald Trump has compared himself to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, even taking it one step further and placing him ...

Veterans Day honors military service. The Fourth of July acknowledges the country’s independence. But Presidents Day is ...

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

Presidents Day is Monday, Feb. 17. It honors the birthdays of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

“[George] Washington had no place within his administration for nepotism and wanted all appointments to be based on merit,” wrote Cyrus A. Ansary in “Dealmaker-In-Chief.” Abraham Lincoln ...

A Republican congresswoman is calling for the new commander in chief to be carved into the historic Mount Rushmore alongside fellow presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson ...

When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s ...

presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; and Lincoln scholars including Harold Holzer, vice chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission; Harvard University’s president Drew Faust and ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...