Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States of America, made his famous "Gettysburg Address" at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on Nov. 19, 1863, during the ...

Later Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention and was unanimously elected as the first President in 1789. Lincoln was elected as the sixteenth President in 1860 and was the war-time ...

If we look at the favorability of each former president just within the group of people with an opinion, both Washington and Lincoln pull further away from Trump. In the GOP, Trump trails ...

In mid-February 1981, President Ronald Reagan placed a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Opinion: Meet the people who run the White House. Their legacy extends across elections.

Corporate America might prefer a single Presidents Day, but Washington and Lincoln each shaped our nation and deserve to be honored separately.

This President's Day, remember that George Washington was a man for the ages. Donald Trump and the rest of us have a lot to learn from him. President's Day is on Monday, Feb. 17.

The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of the presidency.

George Washington, our first president, issued the first official Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789, but the national holiday didn’t begin until 1863, two years into the Civil War, when it was ...

Lincoln sets Thanksgiving as last Thursday in November During the Civil War, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln set the date for a national day of Thanksgiving to be held on the last Thursday in ...