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Ever wondered about the origins of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture seated on a bench in downtown Bloomington? Here's a look ...
Lot 308 is a mortgage deed dated December 20, 1957 co-signed by Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe and her then-husband, the playwright Arthur Mille ...
The larger-than-life legacy of Abraham Lincoln lies, in part, in the smallest special-collections division of the University ...
Dorothy McClerren, 96, portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in her daughter’s home to share her talents with Heartland Hospice workers ...
A new book details correspondence — letters long assumed to have been lost or destroyed -– that shed light on the nature of her illness as well as the nature of her relationships with the few friends ...
Since Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, its recognition has continued to grow in Michigan and nationally too.
Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of ...
Juneteenth honors June 19, 1865, when the last enslaved people in the Confederacy were freed in Texas. Learn about the ...
The likeness between the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and his 11th-generation descendant Ralph C.
Albumen portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taken in Washington at Alexander Gardner’s studio on 9 August 1863, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – Credit: C/O. Another comment that Greene made in an 1865 ...
The banner, plus another featuring President Abraham Lincoln hanging a few columns away, was installed last week in honor of the department’s 163rd birthday and will be up “for the coming ...