On the property where he was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, lies the first memorial ever constructed to honor the life of former President Abraham Lincoln. Opened with great fanfare in 1911, the ...

Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is coming up, our annual reminder about the president born in a humble log cabin. In pre-pandemic days, every year, some 200,000 people trekked to the Kentucky backwoods to ...

LERNA — The area celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday will start about a month ahead of the actual bicentennial. And the historic site where Lincoln’s father lived will reopen for two ...

The ‘Symbolic Birth Cabin’ in the Memorial Building at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park near Hodgenville, Ky. The Memorial Building is a Beaux-Arts neo-classical building designed ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Hodgenville, Ky. I tell my brother to ...

Today is Saturday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 2022. There are 322 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was ...

Becky Schieber proudly showed her young daughter and son the old restored log courthouse where Abraham Lincoln practiced law in Decatur. "I remember the log courthouse when I was little. And I would ...