Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck -- potentially in the form of thousands of dollars. Pennies are everywhere. While most aren't worth much more than, well, a ...

Historians have long debated the sexuality of the 16th president, who had a deeply personal relationship with a male friend named Joshua Speed Hulton/Archive/Getty Rumors about Abraham Lincoln's ...

Inside View: Ignore the haters pushing a revisionist history, and recognize the American experiment for the success that it is. Photo: Michael Brochstein/Zuma Press ‘How long ago is it—80-odd years?” ...

Jon Meacham is among many historians reflecting on the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson. He notes that Jefferson's life and ...

President Donald Trump’s capital redesign follows centuries of debate and discussion about how Washington should look to the world.

Vice President JD Vance has found himself at the centre of intense online mockery yet again. Social media users are heavily trolling him following his recent interview on The Blaze with host Allie ...

There was no indication that the American linden across the street from Abraham Lincoln’s home in Springfield was any different than any of the other 270 trees that populate the four-block National ...

Storms damaged the American linden tree, which was alive when Lincoln lived at the home in Springfield, Ill. He left it in 1861 for the White House. By Emmett Lindner See more of our coverage in your ...

The following interview, on the moments that defined America as it emerged as a new nation and wrestled with a great divide that would lead to civil war, is excerpted from National Geographic's ...

The Navy is considering changing the homeport of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln from San Diego to Bremerton, Wash., which would leave only two flattops based in Southern California. The ...

To call Washington a "swamp" is a metaphor, but also the literal truth. So, when planning began for the Lincoln Memorial in the early 1910s, builders faced a real sinking problem. Their solution led ...

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