Some listeners were startled; a newspaper reporter later wrote that Lincoln’s speech “passed unnoticed by many”; another ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield. While many ...

As I write this (November 19th) there are commemorative ceremonies in the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg marking President Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech. Because of that ...

Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield. While many ...

On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln stood on the east portico of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, to offer his ...

An opportunity for families and friends and, by extension, communities, states, and the country itself to have a national ...

Confederate myths are confronted as John Dunphy pushes back with facts ...

The idea for a national Thanksgiving holiday was not Lincoln’s own. It came from Sarah Josepha Hale, among the most ...

Credit - Interim Archives/) Despite increasing political polarization, evidence suggests that most Americans fundamentally ...

This Thanksgiving, we can be thankful for Sarah Hale, the 34-year-old widow who advocated for a permanent holiday, and for President Lincoln, who said yes.

The controversy sparked by the Oct. 27 release of Tucker Carlson’s softball podcast interview with white nationalist, antisemitic, misogynist conspiracy theorist Nick Fuentes generated a wide ...

Old school or not, though, gratitude is the lifeblood of healthy schools and civic institutions. Happily, the nation’s teachers seem to get this. While the performative jackassery of a few can foster ...