Abraham Lincoln loved puzzles, jokes, and clever performances - but one magician managed to fool him completely. In this ...

Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new ...

Fuller, Logan, and Blaine are more than just fields, neighborhoods, and schools.

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging.

Lincoln had compassion, humor, patience, resolve and humility. We desperately need a leader like him today to restore our ...

Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.

Each year just before Thanksgiving, the president ceremoniously pardons a turkey, a lighthearted moment in his otherwise ...

President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, launching a November tradition. It was also ...

The rink in Union Square Park uses an artificial surface to give an experience similar to ice skating but at temperatures above freezing. Visitors can use their own skates or borrow them at the ...

President Abraham Lincoln, 163 years ago and during a time of unimaginable division, proclaimed Thanksgiving to be a national ...

The U.S. Mint recently struck what will be the final 1-cent coin to be used as legal currency, a few days after the Trump ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The short, handwritten note is a typical letter of reference for a man seeking a job. But the author is the president of the United States. It is also 1861, and the job seeker ...