The Cabrillo Festival’s “We the Dreamers” season features Philip Glass, Rita Dove, Leilehua Lanzilotti and bold new visions ...

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 ...

Jefferson wrote it, but Lincoln gave it new meaning. As we mark our founding document's 250th anniversary, whose vision are we really celebrating?

I had to memorize the Gettysburg Address in eighth grade U.S. history class, a tradition shared by hundreds of thousands of American schoolchildren over decades. I’m sure quite a few folks today think ...

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 ...

A mother of three remains hospitalized after she was seriously hurt while trying to help people involved in a crash on Interstate 95 last weekend Republicans want audit of Rhode Island voter rolls ...

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 ...

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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 ...