When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before or since. The Civil War had killed over 600,000 Americans, North and South.

Here's why a bunch of Abraham Lincoln impersonators from across the country will be in Kalamazoo this weekend.

Broadway may be confined to New York City's theatre district, but there's even more going on uptown. One of the word's ...

As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president gracing the west side of the towering state capitol and soaked up the words of his Gettysburg Address, inscribed on ...

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

If equality is bad,” writes George Pyle in an op-ed, “then why do Utah schools still teach the Declaration of Independence or ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

in the stirring Old Testament strains of his second inaugural address, uttered the most haunting words ever said by an American president. But Lincoln’s venerable, bearded face was first and ...

Nearly $100 million in funding already disbursed to Nebraska is being clawed back, according to a list of canceled grants ...

Nebraska’s projected budget deficit for the next two years has grown by $190 million after the state’s economic forecasting ...

American citizens are turning out in huge numbers to protest the assault on bedrock rights enshrined in the Constitution, the ...