Inside Mount Rushmore's secret room lies a titanium vault sealed in 1998. Discover the hidden Hall of Records behind ...

Historians have long debated the sexuality of the 16th president, who had a deeply personal relationship with a male friend named Joshua Speed Hulton/Archive/Getty Rumors about Abraham Lincoln's ...

Inside View: Ignore the haters pushing a revisionist history, and recognize the American experiment for the success that it is. Photo: Michael Brochstein/Zuma Press ‘How long ago is it—80-odd years?” ...

There was no indication that the American linden across the street from Abraham Lincoln’s home in Springfield was any different than any of the other 270 trees that populate the four-block National ...

Storms damaged the American linden tree, which was alive when Lincoln lived at the home in Springfield, Ill. He left it in 1861 for the White House. By Emmett Lindner See more of our coverage in your ...

The following interview, on the moments that defined America as it emerged as a new nation and wrestled with a great divide that would lead to civil war, is excerpted from National Geographic's ...

The Navy is considering changing the homeport of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln from San Diego to Bremerton, Wash., which would leave only two flattops based in Southern California. The ...

To call Washington a "swamp" is a metaphor, but also the literal truth. So, when planning began for the Lincoln Memorial in the early 1910s, builders faced a real sinking problem. Their solution led ...

On Memorial Day, planes and flags fly for the fallen as a crowd gathers for the annual ceremony at the cemetery.

When Abraham Lincoln stood on the piazza of his summer home overlooking the rolling hills of Northwest Washington, DC, he saw young soldiers being prepared for burial, an unfinished Washington ...

A portrait of Abraham Lincoln that once hung in the office of president Teddy Roosevelt has resurfaced from the collection of the descendants of two Westchester antique dealers. Now, when the ...