The Vandalia Statehouse State Historic Site will celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and America’s 250th ...

As 2026 begins, New Year's Day provides a chance to start anew. Inspiring words encourage action and belief in oneself. The future is a blank page to be written. Abraham Lincoln's quote emphasizes ...

Sailors man the rails as the USS Abraham Lincoln passes North Island in January 2022. (File photo courtesy of the Navy) The USS Abraham Lincoln quietly departed from San Diego last week with the Navy ...

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 ...

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) prepares to conduct a replenishment-at-sea with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) on Nov. 8, 2024. US Navy Photo Less ...

Portrait of American President Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) (painted by George P. Healy, mid-late 1800s), (Photo by Katherine Young/Getty Images) In his 2007 book “Land of Lincoln: Adventures in ...

A newly donated handwritten note from 1861 sheds light on Lincoln’s stance against racial prejudice in the White House is now on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. A ...

As the U.S. nears its 250th birthday, you would think the most basic question—What does it mean to be an American?—would be settled. Instead, it’s more contested than it’s been in decades. At ...

In October 2020, during what was dubbed “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage,” protesters toppled the Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt statues in Portland’s South Park Blocks. Five years later, the ...

Oh, Bernie. Bless his heart — or at least whatever part of it still thinks Abraham Lincoln was on Team Socialist. Yes, in a moment that can only be described as historical revisionism with extra ...

The Abraham Lincoln High School football team has been suspended for the remainder of the 2025 season following a post-game brawl last Saturday against Northeast High School, according to NBC10. The ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...