After he was elected president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was faced with filling patronage positions in the Washington Territory. Just eight years old, the Washington Territory needed territorial suprem ...

Reconciliation bill still sinking with voters; New York mayoral muddle; DNC’s chair agonistes; Crowded field could save ...

The Lincoln Forest neighborhood in Wilmington is named after Lincoln Street, which honors President Abraham Lincoln. The ...

Mountain State residents celebrate another proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. On Jan. 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On June 20, 1863, he declared that Mountaineers are ...

From one First Lady to another, Michelle Obama has given her seal of approval to Oh, Mary! On the latest episode of Bowen ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...

Donald Trump made these remarks at the White House days after sending National Guard to LA amid protests over aggressive ICE ...

The holiday, which falls on June 19, commemorates the historic day when more than 250,000 enslaved people in Galveston Bay, Texas, finally gained their freedom on June 19, 1865—two and a half years ...

President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a ...

"My name is Ralph C. Lincoln and I am honored to be an 11th generation Lincoln who also shares the same great-grandfather as ...

A kindergarten art teacher has left internet viewers in stitches after sharing her students' unexpectedly emotional reaction ...