Previously, grave site Medal of Honor recognition only was available to Medal of Honor recipients who served in the military after 1917, when the United States entered the First World War.

The Hanover area's newest mural, which will be finished in the spring, will commemorate Lincoln's passage just feet away from ...

The colonial origins of Thanksgiving (or what many natives often refer to as Thankskilling or Thankstaking) is not something ...

Thanks to the many years Abraham Lincoln spent in the state, Illinois is known as the Land of Lincoln. But besides leading ...

At the urging of magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale, President Abraham Lincoln declared an annual national holiday of ...

A magazine "editress" tried for decades to persuade the president to declare "a day for our national rejoicing." Lincoln ...

The Pilgrims and the Wampanoags did indeed share a harvest celebration together at Plymouth in fall 1621, but that moment got ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving ” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging.

Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.

The US Mint has been producing the Lincoln penny for more than 100 years, and is being issued even today. With that in mind, ...

Throughout our nation’s history, there have been many incredible moments, ones which we still discuss with reverence today.

On November 19, 1863, near the site of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln offered a ...