Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...

Looking back, he might have preferred his mom's home cooking. But Abraham Lincoln's elegant last meal with his wife became ...

A black man has ascended to the White House 200 years after the birth of the president who ended slavery. History remembers Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, but what were his actual views ...

The history of White House Thanksgiving traditions date back more than 160 years to President Abraham Lincoln, who established the national holiday. During his time in office, Lincoln issued a ...

“The first time I saw Abraham Lincoln ... Lincoln also insisted that Ellsworth's funeral be held in the White House. Lincoln's final close male relationship was with his bodyguard during ...

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

When Abraham ... Lincoln wanted to address what had happened and why, and find some meaning in the tragedy that was still unfolding. “Lincoln wrote for all time,” Ronald C. White Jr. wrote ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that had ripped the United States apart during the 1850s, as slavery became a critical political and a moral issue. As Lincoln had ...