Before he became the president that carried America through the Civil War and emancipated the nation's slaves, Abraham ...
Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...
The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts ...
It’s a question that has plagued historians and journalists for decades. Now, the perpetual debate has reared its head once ...
Their decision is expected over the next couple of weeks, before the end of the month.
A new biography suggests that the eighth U.S. president, who was born in Kinderhook, deserves to be remembered — though not ...
Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...
Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...
Presidents Day evolved from honoring George Washington to a retail-driven holiday. Initially ignored by Washington himself, ...
Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the ...
Ankrom's interest in Abraham Lincoln led him to a 10-year study of Stephen Douglas. The results have been two award-winning ...