Quote of the day: Abraham Lincoln's humble upbringing was profoundly shaped by his mother's moral guidance. She instilled ...

A visit to Abraham Lincoln's birthplace offers perspective as America celebrates its 250th anniversary.

Cherry-picking Lincoln, the MAGA New Right tries to rewrite—or discard altogether—the promise of human equality.

Olympic canoeist David Hearn, 67, denies accusations of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after being arrested ...

For the last Junior Saints of this school year, students were invited to draw a picture of a man or a woman who made history ...

He then pauses, and asks to start over, recalling how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt evoked Jefferson as an “apostle of ...

Among the trinkets they brought back with them was a commemorative ashtray (the object itself rather dates the story!) showing the White House looking like a warm, inviting place, and an engraving of ...

The opening ceremony of the sprawling campus and eight-story museum in Chicago celebrated the country’s first Black president ...

I do not love America, and never have, especially now.” Those are the opening words of America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the ...

Two New York Times journalists spoke to dozens of insiders to explore life in the White House with explosive results ...

In his second term, the president has increasingly mused about his predecessors, comparing himself with some and distancing from the failures of others.

WASHINGTON — About 40 of us commoners are hanging around Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, waiting for the King of ...