Abraham Lincoln

After 21 years of plotting and planning, Gary Casteel may be getting closer to realizing his dream: A National Civil War Memorial near Gettysburg.

Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” former Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) defended Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) after a racist photo of him surfaced from his medical school yearbook, although the governor has since claimed after apologizing that it is not him

President Donald Trump issued a Thanksgiving proclamation on Thursday, urging all Americans to come together to recognize their blessings.

Nationalism and patriotism have been a part of our national conversation for more than two centuries, spanning the presidencies from Washington to Trump. Nationalism grows out of people’s natural desire to be in families, teams, and communities. Thus the nation-state is simply family, team, and community writ large.  

President Trump told the story of how Abraham Lincoln struggled to find a general to beat Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the Civil War and ultimately settled on Grant.

“He’s the man that planted the flag on the face of the moon,” Trump said. “There was no kneeling, there was no nothing, there was no games, boom.”

It seems that all we see and read about these days are accusations, investigations, confrontations—and, as Brett Kavanaugh put it, “character assassinations.”   

First Lady Melania Trump wore an off-the-runway gown to attend an annual gala celebrating President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford’s Theatre on Sunday evening.

First Lady Melania Trump appeared at Ford’s Theater’s annual gala on Sunday night just two days after her husband President Donald Trump smashed conspiracy theories over why she would not be traveling with him to Canada and Singapore.

A Democrat California Assemblyman introduced a bill seeking to make “May Day,” or International Workers Day, a state holiday that would replace President George Washington’s or President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.

Children have been the inspiration and impetus for the White House Easter Egg Roll since the first event in 1878. And in keeping with another tradition, first lady Melania Trump will be welcoming children on Monday to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Treasure hunters on the trail of a lost Civil War gold shipment claim they have discovered the fortune in a remote location of Pennsylvania, but state and federal authorities have blocked them from digging it up, reports say.

Most Americans probably don’t know that the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill that Congress passed in 1968 created the President’s Day holiday.

President Donald Trump’s 2017 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, the first of his presidency, invokes the religious and historical themes and foundations of America’s tradition of thanking God for all the blessings those in this country enjoy.

President Donald Trump delivered a Thanksgiving message video to the American people, praising the new economic spirit filling the nation.

President Donald Trump’s proclamation that Sunday, September 3, shall be a National Day of Prayer for the victims of Hurricane Harvey follows a tradition first established by George Washington and continued by presidents including Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, as well as being ratified by Congress.

Something is wrong when legislators who pledged support of the Second Amendment suddenly grow silent when an anti-gun bill comes before them.

A ninety-year-old bust of Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth president, was destroyed in a South Side Chicago neighborhood overnight on Wednesday.

The Illinois legislature just created a new state commemorative holiday to celebrate the birthday of “favorite son” Barack Obama.

What they say about the weather is also true of politics: If you don’t like what’s happening now, wait a bit—because things will change. The same point holds true for presidential politics. What happens to a president early on is not automatically dispositive to what happens to that president later on. History is full of examples of presidential comebacks, and President Reagan’s first term is a case in point.

As a leader in fake news, CNN is repeatedly caught selling stories based on dubious sources. But now CNN was even caught Tweeting out fake quotes it attributed to famous Americans such as Abe Lincoln and founding father Benjamin Franklin.

Historian John Heiser from the Gettysburg National Military Park joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow to discuss the historic battle and its legacy on Monday for the show’s special Memorial Day episode.

“Republican Wins Special Election Despite Assault Charge,” Reuters headlined its Friday morning article. Despite?

The Obama White House was a left-wing monoculture. Trump’s “team of rivals” is likely here to stay, and America will be the better for it.

In his March 20 speech in Louisville, Kentucky, President Trump sounded many familiar and important themes, including the importance of jobs, manufacturing, trade, and the need to revive the coal industry. And yet he also added a new and larger “meta-theme,” namely, the urgency of building up our industrial strength for the sake of economic and national security. That meta-theme, we might observe, is the essence of the “American System” of Henry Clay.

Spring 1865. The president has just delivered his second inaugural address. MSNBC provides live coverage. “Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest

President-elect Donald Trump will swear in as president on a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln during his first inauguration as president. The Lincoln Bible is currently part of the Library of Congress collection and was used by Obama to swear

The media is full of astonished reports that some of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for Cabinet positions appear to disagree with him on key policy issues. But in 2009, mainstream journalists were waxing romantic about Obama’s so-called “Team of Rivals,” comparing him to Abraham Lincoln

Peter Morici, economist and business professor at the University of Maryland, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday about his recent op-ed, “Trump’s Foreign Policy Reset: Realism Is Likely to Replace Obama Idealism.”

Contents: Donald Trump victory signals a major increase in nationalism; Brexit referendum and US election illustrate dangers of predicting elections; The honeymoon calm before the storm; Is this the Apocalypse?