Lansing State Journal on MSN11h
Presidents Day is Monday. Here's where you can take in presidential history in Michigan
Presidents Day is Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. The name Presidents Day became the unofficial name with the changing the date of the holiday, according to the National Archives. With the holiday moved to the ...
The American Spectator21h
Pressley, Booker, and Colleagues: Silent on Dems Paying Reparations for Party’s Support of Slavery
The Fox News headline quoting Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley was hilarious. Quite unintentionally.
Abraham Lincoln owned a drum made in Mass.; do you know where it is?
Massachusetts is home to the oldest drum company in the United States and one of the oldest in the world. Noble and Cooley in Granville, Mass., has been making drums since 1854, catering to some ...
Smithsonian Magazine4h
Intern Finds Only Known Surviving Copy of ‘The Heart of Lincoln,’ a Silent Film Thought to Be Lost to History
Released in 1915, the film was directed by Francis Ford, the brother of famed filmmaker John Ford. It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" ...
TheCollector on MSN17h
The History of Slavery in the United States From Beginning to End
With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...
Milwaukee Independent13h
Lincoln’s belief in a “government for the people” shaped the course of what was American democracy
Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no ...
Richmond Daily News20h
Looking back at Lincoln School, integration in Richmond
This is the first part of a two-part series about Lincoln School and the anniversary of integration in Richmond. The end of ...