On May 22, 1849, only three months after the native Kentuckian celebrated his 40th birthday, the United States Patent Office issued Patent No. 6,469 for a device "buoying vessels over shoals." The ...

Few days changed the course of American history like April 15, 1865 — when Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. WTOP’s Jimmy Alexander explores ...

Wednesday is the 150th anniversary of the death of President Abraham Lincoln, and while most Americans know the history of his assassination, many aren't aware of some of the odd facts related to his ...

There's little doubt that Abraham Lincoln was one of the most influential and important leaders ever elected to the White House. Yet his rise from obscurity to president wasn't all on the up and up.

WASHINGTON -- For just about everybody in the U.S., it's a three-day weekend as America celebrates its 139th Presidents Day. But how much do we really know about the men who've held America's top job?

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park: The National Park Service presents videos honoring Lincoln on Feb. 12 on Facebook. The park in Hodgenville, Kentucky, preserves two farms: Sinking ...

After a long treatise on the illegality of secession, Lincoln closed with a single flourish. His plea to the “better angels of our nature” is so familiar that we can miss the very particular ...