In the spring of 1859, Abraham Lincoln was invited by a committee of Boston Republicans to attend a festival in honor of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. He couldn’t make it. Instead, he sent a ...

LINCOLN.; The First Biography of Him, Now Extremely Scarce and Almost Unknown, Beautifully Reprinted. Share full article. Sept. 8, 1900. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

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Before they got to the White House, these future presidents worked as lawyers, journalists, and businessmen.

Before he became the president that carried America through the Civil War and emancipated the nation's slaves, Abraham Lincoln was a formidable wrestler — and trash talker. After winning ...

In a new documentary called Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln, a group of scholars argue that the 16th President of the United States had sexual relationships with multiple men ...

With these four volumes Carl Sandburg completes the life of Lincoln begun in “The Prairie Years.” Taking the total achievement, there is nothing in historical literature that I know quite ...