When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Campbell’s focus is far from skirmishes but rather ...

Twin brothers John Middleton Clayton and William Henry Harrison Clayton were born on their father’s farm near Philadelphia in ...

After he was elected president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was faced with filling patronage positions in the Washington Territory. Just eight years old, the Washington Territory needed territorial suprem ...

Opal Lee was 89 when she began her campaign to make the day a federal holiday. At 98. she's still an inspiration ...

On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the Coming ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky. He would go on to rank among the best presidents in U.S. history, ... While campaigning for re-election during his first term, ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what ...

1 of 7 | Tourists gather to take pictures at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on October 12, 2024. On November 8, 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second ...

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln defied the odds by winning the Republican nomination and the presidency after a lifetime of struggles that included clinical depression, personal bankruptcy, losing ...

Born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln rose to the presidency in 1861. Hulton Archive / Getty Images. America’s presidential election is still more than a month away.