A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...

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

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

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 ...

The larger-than-life legacy of Abraham Lincoln lies, in part, in the smallest special-collections division of the University ...

Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid $18.1 million for copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

This wine trail in Maryland offers exquisite vineyard views, a tasty array of wines, and some historical charm.

Although Frank Meyer Frank was a National Review colleague of William F. Buckley, who loathed Murray Rothbard, Frank admired Rothbard and the two men often ...

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, ...

Regional animosities have existed in Illinois since before it was admitted to the Union in 1818 as the 21st state, and only grew stronger with Chicago’s rise as an economic powerhouse in the late 19th ...

In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol ...

The Twilight Zone’s “The Passersby” is a haunting, twist-filled classic that stands out with eerie visuals and a chilling, ...