It is another story, but in the course of time, Martha Belle moved her father’s vault and casket to the Watkinsville cemetery, where he now rests. She says that he was an unreconstructed rebel and ...

1.This is a photo of conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton, pictured here in the mid-1920s. They spent most of their lives ...

On a day that shattered a nation, one woman's composure became the quiet force that held America together. Following an ...

Strolling the river walk along the Washington Navy Yard waterfront today, it is hard to imagine that the Anacostia River, ...

In 1955, the Watsonville Lions club launched a crusade to gather a million pennies ($10,000) for the United Crusade ...

This coming Monday will mark the official 250th birthday of the U.S. Navy. Philomath sailors past and present share their ...

October 1 is a load-bearing footnote in the ledger of Wisconsin’s political and agricultural history. The first Wisconsin State Fair was a two-day event that drew around 10,000 people, the largest ...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion of gender equality, made history again on Friday as the first woman and first Jewish person to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol, in a ceremony ...

The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum (ALLM) at Lincoln Memorial University welcomed guests Thursday evening for a special preview screening of Ken Burns’ new documentary series, The American ...

Fourteen presidents have called themselves Freemasons, members of the centuries-old fraternal organization known for its secret rituals and mysterious symbols. Abraham Lincoln was not one of them, but ...

We know a lot about Abraham Lincoln: he was born to illiterate parents in a Kentucky log cabin, he executed the Emancipation Declaration in 1863, and, in presidential terms, he was enormously tall. We ...