12, where he gave a speech before a bipartisan crowd that ... Washington came back from the dead, and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice president, I think it would have been very hard for ...

With Abraham Lincoln’s 216th birthday Feb. 12 and Presidents’ Day Feb. 17, the lives of previous U.S. presidents can provide ...

Public DomainA late 19th-century illustration of Abraham Lincoln wrestling hometown bully Jack Armstrong. He has been mythologized as one of the greatest Americans to ever be elected president, but ...

David Leroy — a former Idaho lieutenant governor, attorney general and Abraham Lincoln historian — gave a presentation for ...

Is Presidents Day the most confusing holiday in the U.S.?States seem to have as many names for it and ideas about whom to honor as there have been presidents. The federal government doesn't even ...

Most often, it’s Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War president who sometimes outranks ... who was a Vermont farm boy before becoming Massachusetts’ governor and, later, the country’s 30th president.