Lincoln led through crisis by aligning decisive action with a long horizon, turning the fight to save the Union into a moral ...

President Donald Trump’s recent flurry of attempts to deploy National Guard troops in cities around the country reminds me of an old “block-that-metaphor” line from the New Yorker: “As I look at ...

After a long treatise on the illegality of secession, Lincoln closed with a single flourish. His plea to the “better angels ...

Sure, there are lots of facts that we don’t really need in everyday life — such as the value of pi, the number of elements on ...

Africa is not a country... Now that we've got that out the way, we can move on to what we've gathered here to discuss today: ...

Civility protects the processes that give everyone a voice and a chance to participate. Disagreement, even when passionate or ...

Fourteen presidents have called themselves Freemasons, members of the centuries-old fraternal organization known for its secret rituals and mysterious symbols. Abraham Lincoln was not one of them, but ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...

Three Louisiana residents have been arrested for allegedly stealing a rare solid silver Abraham Lincoln statue from the Houmas House Estate and Gardens in Darrow and cutting it into pieces to sell at ...

Abe the man born in Kentucky transplanted to Evansville to marry and start a family, to make a final move to Texas where he took his last breath at home. Abe is preceded in death by his wife of 54 yrs ...

ASCENSION PARISH, La. — Three people were arrested Thursday in in connection with the theft of a silver Abraham Lincoln statue from the Houmas House and Gardens in Darrow, according to the Ascension ...

In August, history professor Michael Birkner gave a short speech in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, near where President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address in November 1863. The event was ...