Former President Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942. When he was sworn in as POTUS in early 2021, he was 78 years old.

When Gov. JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker visited the pope in Rome on Nov. 19, they gave the pontiff a gift: a ...

Alan Wong, the child of immigrants, a military veteran and a member of the Board of Trustees for City College of San ...

Abraham Lincoln is one of those historical figures, like George Washington or Napoleon, where you sometimes forget that he was a real person. Yes, of course, Lincoln was obviously real — we didn't ...

On Market Street in Steubenville, history still looks back at you. The bronze figure of Edwin M. Stanton gazes across the valley he once called home. Born here in 1814, Stanton rose from the banks of ...

BENJAMIN THOMAS, the author of the best single-volume biography of Lincoln, reminds us that following the election of President Zachary Taylor in 1848, ...

Originally a staple of Newsweek 's print edition, Conventional Wisdom used arrows to track whose stock was rising or falling ...

Members of the next generation are listening. They are learning not only how to baste a turkey, but how to live a life. Show ...

Grit is the ability to persevere through difficulty, to stay committed when the excitement fades and to keep moving forward ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The short, handwritten note is a typical letter of reference for a man seeking a job. But the author is the president of the United States. It is also 1861, and the job seeker ...

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