Rep. Bartlett, who first tackled the issue in 1999, has reintroduced the Washington-Lincoln Recognition Act.

Displacing the cows that grazed at the foot of the Washington Monument and the pigs that rolled in the muddy canal in front of the Capitol building, thousands of Union soldiers from around the ...

Washington’s words merit consideration in a time when there is much partisanship and national debt. Lincoln, who held the country together during the Civil War, wrote in a private note in ...

To many, Washington and Lincoln have become more myths than men, staring out at us from coins, bills and mountains, while kindly granting a day off in dreaded February.But with all of the car sales.

As president-elect, Lincoln literally sneaked into Washington, arriving at the Baltimore & Ohio station—where Union Station stands today—just after dawn on February 23, 1861. He came ten hours ahead ...