This is the week we recall the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Although we don’t single out his birthday as a nation any longer, ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

The Heart of Lincoln,” a 1922 movie directed by the pioneering filmmaker Francis Ford, was found at a stock-footage library ...

Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History is hallmarking Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday with the start of a coloring contest to celebrate Lincoln and work on a mural ...

When songwriters Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada signed on to write an original song for Sing Sing, the duo was captivated by the film’s intensity and genuine approach to the story.

In the new biography Abraham: The First Jew, Anthony Julius makes the case for the patriarch as the first “self-authored human being.” As related in midrash, Abraham was a man who, through his ...

As works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder come to auction in London, Old Masters pictures specialist Alexis Ashot explores art history’s most tangled family tree across almost ...

Self-taught artist Justin Wadlington, who's blind in one eye, says his epic Eagles painting symbolizes the "embodiment of ...

The Berlin Gemäldegalerie is presenting 60 works by European painters from the 16th to 19th centuries from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art. Graffiti and textile work are both rooted in ...

An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.