The Emancipation Statue stands in Lincoln Park, which is overseen by the National Park Service.

Summer foods are still here and still delicious.

“For goodness, peace, and decency / Were never heaven-sent; / And each of us must now become / our own alt-President.”

You have one day left of Rickey month to enjoy D.C.’s signature cocktail.

We’re drinking our veggies with booze. Plus: Food Day, brew tours, Barmini classes, and more.

At this point, you may be thinking “Really?” But author Bryan Young says, to him, “it’s really important to excite kids about history.”

We’ve picked out restaurants that generally offer many or all choices from their regular menu and where the Restaurant Week price is substantially less than what you would pay if ordering the items a la carte.

With Virginia celebrating the filming of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large) wants D.C. to step up its attractiveness to movie productions, but his bill to do so was a critical dud.

Steven Spielberg’s biopic of the nation’s 16th president is but a pale and fairly lifeless approximation of the conflicts that tore the nation apart.

As Abraham Lincoln, David Selby has the weight of the union on his shoulders in “The Heavens Are Hung in Black.” Photo by T. Charles Erickson. In the handy study guide that accompanies the world premiere production of The Heavens Are Hung in Black, now running at the newly reopened Ford’s Theatre, playwright James Still observes that his subject, Abraham Lincoln, is “probably the most written-about person in the world after Jesus.” If that’s…