An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...

Guests throughout the centuries have seen ghosts at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Learn about some of those who are said to haunt the halls.

The White House might be home to the seat of executive power in the U.S., but if some who have walked its halls are to be ...

Abraham Lincoln's 1861 handwritten letter recommending his Black friend William Johnson for a job is now on display at the ...

Christina Shutt, Executive Director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, joins John Williams to ...

In 1824, Andrew Jackson lost the presidential election to John Quincy Adams. Four years later, he won but held grudges against those who had not supported him. Mary Todd Lincoln, who had seances in ...