The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...

President Donald Trump, who was speaking in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday, complained he's been treated poorly by a "hostile press" Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been ...

The Lincoln Memorial honors Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the United States. President Lincoln served during the Civil War, emancipated enslaved people in the South, preserved the Union ...

In April 1865 carpenters constructed this velvet-draped bier, known as the Lincoln catafalque, to display the murdered president’s ... not a memorial to the grandfathers’ grandfathers of ...

Here is a brief history of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump ... reported on the rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Shortly ...

The Lincoln Memorial, which was officially dedicated ... his words weren’t supposed to live on in history. In fact, the 16th president wasn’t even the primary speaker that day; that honor ...