THE VIEW FROM RIZALRico Tindoy, 62, is an Antipoleño who spent more than two decades working as a caregiver in Israel.For more than 20 years, he did not ...

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, ...

We're halfway through the summer of immigration, those hot months hosting a bevy of ICE raids, protests, and presidential statements that spin like a weather vane in a storm.

Procession kicks off from Boston City Hall Plaza at 9 a.m. and meanders to the Old State House for the annual reading of the ...

Did you ever notice how the weather sneaks into our everyday conversations—and even our history? U.S. Presidents, standing at the crossroads of power and people, ... Read more The post 10 Famous ...

Whiskey is not an American invention, but the best domestic iterations certainly have their own fanciful backstories and ...

There are ideas aplenty in Roger Q. Mason and Lovell Holder’s 'Lavender Men,' but much of it gets bogged down in an overly theatrical conceit.

Nearly 10 months after downtown Reading celebrated the opening of its second hotel, the other hotel -- a center city landmark -- is now set to close.

An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to auction via Sotheby's.

We have Lincoln wrong: Our greatest Lincoln historian explains his real Civil War motivations Too often, we settle for the idea that Lincoln fought to save a mythical union. He really fought for ...

The flair for the theatrical is at the core of “Lavender Men.” The film is set in a small theater where a rather mediocre play about Abraham Lincoln is being staged. But no sooner has the ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on June 27, according to the Tribune’s archives.