More than 150 years ago, an 11-year-old Tad Lincoln gave away a small ring that had been braided with hair from his pony. Tad, the youngest son of President Abraham Lincoln, gave the ring to the wife ...

Each year a pair of turkeys are brought to the White House for the president to pardon—to be spared from a deeply tanned appearance on the Executive dining room table. What most don’t know is that ...

President Obama will continue the odd and heartwarming tradition of pardoning a turkey before Thanksgiving this week — a tradition the White House says may go back 150 years. The White House's ...

Abraham Lincoln’s ties to Thanksgiving go beyond the 1863 proclamation that declared the last Thursday in November to be “set apart…as a day of Thanksgiving.” In fact, it was the 16th president of the ...

SPRINGFIELD - The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is celebrating a surprise Father's Day gift - a rare original photograph of Tad Lincoln and two rediscovered wartime letters written ...

Honest Abe was many things, but a strict, no-nonsense father wasn’t one of them. More often than not, he reveled in his children’s escapades—even those that drove other grownups crazy. To hear him ...

15:19, Thu, Apr 30, 2020 Updated: 15:21, Thu, Apr 30, 2020 Thomas “Tad” Lincoln was the fourth and youngest son of the former President, who was renowned for preserving the Union and abolishing ...

From the Bush girls to Tad Lincoln, here's how White House kids broke the rules (and didn't get away with it). Last weekend, President Obama's eldest daughter, Malia, was filmed smoking something at ...