Feb. 16—Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate the year before to Stephen A. Douglas, ...

On June 16, 1858, more than 160 years ago, a little-known politician delivered a speech at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield after he accepted his party's nomination for U.S. senator. Abraham ...

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago. Many describe contemporary America in the same terms. We’re a house divided ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- In solemnity, thousands gathered on a central Pennsylvania battlefield park Tuesday to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted would not be ...

What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago, on Thursday May 29, 1856, ignited Abraham Lincoln’s march to the presidency, and eventually led to the Civil War-era 13th, 14th and 15 amendments, which ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — After 167 years, President Abraham Lincoln has returned to the park where he gave his only public speech in the state of Michigan. Unveiled at the same time, 2 p.m., place, Bronson ...

During the Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump on Capitol Hill over the past week, the name and words of another president, Abraham Lincoln, have come up over and over. Lincoln’s ...

From our first days as a nation, we have put our faith in free markets and free enterprise as the engine of America’s wealth and prosperity. More than citizens of any other country, we are rugged ...

The quote has been misconstrued from an 1838 Abraham Lincoln speech, according to fact-checking services Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, misused an adage that's been wrongfully attributed ...

MSNBC historian Michael Beschloss explained Thursday that President Biden’s speech in Philadelphia was inspired by presidential speeches before two of America’s biggest wars. He said on "All In with ...

A drone perspective of one of the most important periods in the life of Abraham Lincoln. It documents the travels of the Springfield lawyer as he “rode the circuit” in central Illinois in the late ...