President Abraham Lincoln's wife Mary Todd would serve him this cake while the couple courted. It would go on to become one ...

New scholarship shows that Abraham Lincoln was a deeply sensitive man who embraced radical acts of inclusion to keep the ...

Jeff Daniels criticized the Republican Party's "deterioration" during an interview, claiming Harris would have appointed ...

Dumb and Dumber star Jeff Daniels said the country missed a historic opportunity by not electing former Vice President Kamala ...

On April 11, 1865, two days after Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant, President Abraham Lincoln gave the last speech of his life from a White House window to an exuberant crowd ...

When President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary — in 1863, while in the White House — received a live turkey for the family to feast on at Christmas, their precocious eight-year-old son Tad ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

Abraham Lincoln richly deserves his own day instead of getting mashed into the employer-convenient "President's Day. Doubtless he deserves his own holiday for fighting to preserve the union ...

That verdict came from the pen of Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, heading into Abraham Lincoln’s reelection campaign of 1864. Most Americans remember Lincoln as a hero and ...

In the spring of 1859, Abraham Lincoln was invited by a committee of Boston Republicans to attend a festival in honor of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. He couldn’t make it. Instead, he sent a ...