Virgil E. Frahm, a lifelong Nebraskan and veteran, was recognized for his service in World War II. The governor presented ...

Ivy League professor father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani linked Hitler's Holocaust to Abraham Lincoln during ...

John McCaa recalls a moment in his early career when he could not report on a political assassination in Spain. In our own ...

The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.

William “Bill” Hanchett was a Berkeley-educated history scholar. He was a civilian historian for the U.S. Air Force and for more than 30 years taught U.S. history at San Diego State University, where ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Abraham Lincoln is well-known for his extraordinary political career. Elected twice by the American public, Lincoln's ...

When Abraham Lincoln died in 1865, felled by an assassin’s bullet at the end of the Civil War, he left behind a considerable legacy. But Lincoln did not leave behind many descendants. In 1985, the ...

The first version of an American Memorial Day occurred in May 1868, three years after the end of the American Civil War. Then named Decoration Day, it only honored Union soldiers who died in that war.

Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port Royal, Virginia ...

While at the Library of Congress, Ari Siegel encountered a handwritten letter from Abraham Lincoln, and said the experience taught him that primary source documents were the key to learning history.

How Abraham Lincoln in a kippah wound up making a $250,000 deal on ‘Shark Tank’ Jewish entrepreneur Ari Siegel secured a $250,000 investment on the show for his business, History By Mail .