Donald Iwerks, son of Mickey Mouse co-creator Ub Iwerks, whose groundbreaking innovations transformed cinematic storytelling and immersive entertainment, died July 9. He was 96. I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some US presidents had unexpected jobs before they got to the White House. Abraham Lincoln worked as a postmaster in New Salem, ...

Historians have long debated whether or not Abraham Lincoln was secretly gay, citing his close friendship with a man named Joshua Speed, with whom he was known to share a bed ...

Inside View: Ignore the haters pushing a revisionist history, and recognize the American experiment for the success that it is. Photo: Michael Brochstein/Zuma Press ‘How long ago is it—80-odd years?” ...

There was no indication that the American linden across the street from Abraham Lincoln’s home in Springfield was any different than any of the other 270 trees that populate the four-block National ...

Storms damaged the American linden tree, which was alive when Lincoln lived at the home in Springfield, Ill. He left it in 1861 for the White House. By Emmett Lindner See more of our coverage in your ...

The Navy is considering changing the homeport of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln from San Diego to Bremerton, Wash., which would leave only two flattops based in Southern California. The ...

Case Reopened: Mary Todd Lincoln—widow of Abraham Lincoln, pictured here circa 1846—was scorned by her country and put on trial. Now, she’s been given a new lease on legacy. Credit: Wikimedia Commons ...

Elizabeth Hardwick, visiting her home town of Lexington, Kentucky, in the late nineteen-sixties, declared that “the glory of the place is a certain vault-like solidity.” Even so, she could find in ...

Iran said Wednesday it had fired cruise missiles in the direction of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, hours after Tehran’s military dismissed any talk of an agreement to end the war with the ...

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