Learn about Abraham Lincoln (sixteenth president, 1861–1865) through museum art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of ...

JANESVILLE Before he left Illinois to assume the presidency, Abraham Lincoln visited the graves of his father and stepmother. And it was John W. Baker, grandfather of Charleston resident Gale ...

In the 2020 graphic memoir "They Called Us Enemy," George Takei took readers into the U.S. government’s internment of ...

The Fourth of July is a day for flags, of course, but consider another part of the patriotic display that’s taken for granted — the flagpole. It’s not the most interesting thing in the urban landscape ...

Often described as the 'most dangerous plant in Britain', the sap of giant hogweed can cause burns and blisters bigger than ...

Sen. Mark Warner wants to rein in a 218-year old law granting presidents sweeping power to send troops to suppress protests, a measure President Donald Trump has said he might ...

Discover who Li Jun Li is, the multilingual actress known for her roles in Quantico, Babylon, and Sinners, and how she rose ...

According to a new lawsuit, Abraham has repeatedly groped women on flights — often during red-eye trips when the cabin is dark — yet was allowed to continue flying until his March 2024 arrest.

And today, if you don't like what you hear or see about the story you can report it for being negative about U.S. history. In ...

One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary ...

Watchmakers have been battling the problem for centuries, with solutions dating as far back as the 1700s, when Abraham-Louis Breguet invented the pare-chute shock protection system and installed it in ...