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 ...

Defense, run game, and grit led Abraham Lincoln to its third consecutive win, this time in the 71st Battle for the Bluffs and the Friends and Alumni Trophy over Thomas Jefferson 14-8. The Lynx defense ...

Abraham Lincoln is often invoked in calls for civility and reconciliation across the partisan divide. But Lincoln himself understood that such reconciliation was impossible in his own time until ...