A long-serving White House usher has shared a ghastly ghost story involving Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United ...

An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...

Unsurprisingly, he avoided meeting with any future presidents until his death in 1926. Robert Todd Lincoln’s legacy is not ...

A rare Lincoln letter at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows how race shaped early White House life and presidential power.

Abraham Lincoln penned the entreaty on behalf of his young friend, William Johnson, because ironically, his dark complexion ...

Christina Shutt, Executive Director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, joins John Williams to ...

Abraham Lincoln's 1861 handwritten letter recommending his Black friend William Johnson for a job is now on display at the ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was admitted to the union as the 41st state. In ...

Guiding the host into the Palm Room, which connects the front of the White House to the Rose Garden and West Colonnade, Trump ...

1873: The new Palmer House welcomed its first guests. At the time, 175 rooms were ready. Boarding was $3 per day (about $100 per day in today’s dollars). The previous version was destroyed in the ...

The works of Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters and Vachel Lindsay — known collectively as the Sangamon River poets — will come ...