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

The distance between Lincoln’s speech and Monday’s inauguration felt further than the length of the Mall. It even felt further, somehow, than 160 years.

Sixty-four years ago, the Estes Park Trail, predecessor to the Estes Park Trail-Gazette, ran columns highlighting the ...

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

Images from the inauguration show President Trump did not put his hand on a Bible as he was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. It is not required in the Constitution.

President-elect Donald Trump will use two Bibles to culminate the 60th Presidential Inauguration. He is not the first to do ...

Bush, 2001 Inaugural Address “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.” — Abraham Lincoln ...

The Lincoln Bible was provided during Lincoln’s 1861 inauguration by William Thomas Carroll, clerk of the Supreme Court. That’s because Lincoln’s family Bible was still packed and on its way to ...

let’s take a look back tracing the history of First Ladies’ fashion during the inauguration ceremonies. Mary Todd Lincoln Wife of former President Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln is ...

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