Ever wondered about the origins of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture seated on a bench in downtown Bloomington? Here's a look ...

The Bicentennial Speaker Series co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County and John Wood Community College continues with a Wednesday, July 9 presentation.

Ken Griffin just snapped up two more impressive pieces of U.S. history.

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

Steven Spielberg's acclaimed historical drama film Lincoln is available to stream for free and stars an unrecognisable three time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis in the lead role ...

Starring a three-time Oscar winner as the protagonist, the Steven Spielberg directorial is considered to be a 'masterpiece' ...

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at reco ...

Before they got to the White House, these future presidents worked as lawyers, journalists, and businessmen.

June 19, 1865 — when word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the slaves in Galveston Bay, Texas. Union Gen. Gordon Granger delivered ...

As I write this, many in this community and around the world are celebrating Juneteenth, the day nearly 250,000 enslaved ...