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Ivy League professor father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani linked Hitler's Holocaust to Abraham Lincoln during comments at a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society.
As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...
The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...
I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...
John McCaa recalls a moment in his early career when he could not report on a political assassination in Spain. In our own ...
In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...
Henry C. Longnecker (1820-1871) was born in Cumberland County but later made Lehigh County and Allentown his home. He served ...
The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.
The Department of Agriculture has announced that it will host the Great American Farmers Market on the National Mall Aug. 3 ...
To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.
To honor America’s 250th anniversary, the USDA will host the Great American Farmers Market on the National Mall from August 3 ...
A rare broadside of the "Declaration of Independence, July 1776, on view at Seth Kaller Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy ...