Before assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was a famous actor who once took the stage in Lexington.

Indiana's coin shows a young Lincoln sitting on a log, reading a book. It's meant to depict his time in Indiana from 1816 to ...

America's conflicted history over its treatment of immigrants and what President Lincoln might say about today's immigration ...

On Nov 6th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president. And the rest is history.

Abraham Lincoln, a symbol of perseverance, emphasized personal resolution as paramount to success. His famous quote, 'Always ...

When the sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor’s monument of Roosevelt was unveiled in Portland in 1922, the then-recently deceased 26th president, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Spanish-American war ...

The American penny died on Wednesday in Philadelphia. It was 232. The cause was irrelevance and expensiveness, the Treasury ...

In a polarized age, Pope Leo's fluent American English with a Midwestern accent may be exactly what the church, our country ...

Production of one-cent coins in America will cease in 2026. The penny’s life has been long and fruitful, but its time has ...

The Tony-winning play paints Abraham Lincoln's wife as a boozy aspiring actress, but how does history really remember her?

The works of Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters and Vachel Lindsay — known collectively as the Sangamon River poets — will come ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Anthony “Tony” DiPalma, who retired as the longest-serving uniformed officer in the NYPD after an extraordinary 44-year career, died on Nov. 7. He was 74. His dedication to ...