Living host Jaclyn Friedlander interviews Christina Shutt from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum about a ...

Jonathan White is a professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University and an author. Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president.

1. The author, a Clinton White House adviser, began a multivolume Lincoln biography with this atmospheric, authoritative curtain raiser. It reimagines the roiling political culture in which young ...

Kentuckians know the Bluegrass State is the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, but the Commonwealth was also home to his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. In fact, her family lived in a Georgian abode in downtown ...

Abraham and Mary Lincoln : corn dodgers and egg corn bread -- Lincoln's gingerbread men -- Life on the Indiana frontier: pawpawss, honey, and pumpkins -- Journeys of discovery: New Orleans curry and ...

Abraham Lincoln’s rise from a log cabin to the White House has inspired generations of Americans. Here, from our 16th president, are tips about some virtues and ideals that lead to success in life.

This year, Presidents' Day is on February 17, 2025. And while it also happens to be a date closer to George Washington's birthday (Feb. 22), it's a day that we, as Americans, commemorate all of our ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village, ...

President Abraham Lincoln. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image—Time Life Pictures The trouble with writing about Abraham Lincoln is ...