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.

As the U.S. celebrates 249 years of independence, we reflect on the milestones that shaped its democracy—an enduring ...

The Department of Agriculture has announced that it will host the Great American Farmers Market on the National Mall Aug. 3 ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

But it paid off quite well for three Abraham Lincoln High School students who attended the recent National History Day ...

Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner has a collection of autographs that includes the signature of every American president.

Every single generation is convinced, it seems, that their revolution will work, and their moment is uniquely in need of ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

You’re weighing the totality of consequences — the 750,000 deaths, the bitterness that metastasized into Jim Crow, the Confederacy's martyr mythos that still haunts us — against the possibility of a ...