The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He ...

In the 1850s, as disunion loomed and tempers frayed, so many members of Congress carried weapons into the legislature that a senator said, “The only persons who don’t have a ...

"President Trump will stand at the podium in a time of deep division and great challenge," David Adler writes in his weekly ...

Abraham Lincoln faced challenges that dwarf many or all of today’s crises, yet his leadership transcended the moment, leaving ...

Katherine Jane Chase, daughter of Lincoln's Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase, was a social and political rival of Mary Todd ...

If any woman was ever born to be the first lady of the United States, it was Kate. Glitteringly beautiful and dazzlingly ...