That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

It was in Tolono, a place Lincoln had visited a dozen or more times and where he had many friends, that the president-elect ...

As millions watched President Donald Trump’s inauguration at the White House on Monday, Jan. 20, many noticed that he did not place his left hand on a Bible while being sworn in. Now people are ...

President Trump used the same Bibles from his inauguration in January 2017: a 1953 Revised Standard Version gifted to him by his mother; and the Lincoln Bible, used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

CBS News will carry the Trump Inauguration Day events live, beginning at 9 a.m. ET, across broadcast and streaming platforms.

First Lady Melania Trump was standing next to Trump, holding two Bibles, one given by his mother in 1955 and the other used by Abraham Lincoln for his inauguration in 1861. Trump seemed to forget the ...

have been applied to countless situations since Abraham Lincoln first uttered them in 1861. Not all inaugural addresses achieve greatness. Some have been quite forgettable. But each of them has ...

Trump took the oath of office on Monday immediately after Vice President JD Vance was sworn in by Associate Supreme Court ...

Donald Trump’s second inaugural speech will be remembered as worse than 59 others, including his first.