For most of us, the Lincoln assassination lives only in history books or in television or movie adaptations of the event. But for Samuel J. Seymour (1860–1956), it was a core memory. It was a ...

For more than 234 years, The Old Farmer’s Almanac has been part of the American story. Often called a “gardener’s bible,” the almanac was first published by Robert B. Thomas during George Washington’s ...