friendly—Doris Kearns Goodwin quotes him as describing laughter as “the joyous, universal evergreen of life” in her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, on which the ...

For the second time in two weeks, hundreds of thousands of people in every state demonstrated in opposition to inequality and ...

While at the Library of Congress, Ari Siegel encountered a handwritten letter from Abraham Lincoln, and said the experience taught him that primary source documents were the key to learning history.

Despite all the hullabaloo leading up to their shared bicentennial, it still seems incredible that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln ... fight to achieve racial equality in the United States ...

When Ari Siegel took the stage on a recent episode of “Shark Tank,” he was dressed as Abraham Lincoln, but with a Jewish twist: His outfit featured a kippah and a kapota, the black robe ...

In 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died of an assassin's bullet fired the night before at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Vice President Andrew Johnson was sworn in as chief executive.

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...