The Tony-winning play paints Abraham Lincoln's wife as a boozy aspiring actress, but how does history really remember her? Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an ...

The vice president doubts that America’s definition is found in a ‘proposition.’ ...

Guests throughout the centuries have seen ghosts at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Learn about some of those who are said to haunt ...

Frederick Douglass was the first black man to discuss politics alone with the president. In Lincoln, the reformer found an ...

From a genuine abolition point of view, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent, but measuring him by the sentiment of his country--a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to discuss--he ...

Doris Keons Goodwin is an American journalist and political commentator. She has worked at the White House and taught about the presidency at Harvard University. Goodwin has written several ...

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 ...

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 ...

This 64-pound solid silver statue was stolen from the Houmas House Estate in Darrow, Louisiana, had been cut up to be sold to pawn shops, officials say. Houmas House Estate & Gardens Facebook ...

“Loving Lincoln” encompasses the women he befriended, defended in divorce actions, those who wrote to seek pardons and government offices for their husbands, writers like Ida Tarbell, Ruth Painter ...