While the first POTUS himself was not keen on celebrating his birthday, nearly 300 years after his birth Americans continue ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

Check out the latest exhibits and events Central Illinois museums, galleries and historic sites have to offer.

Teen artists showcase their talent and creativity by displaying flower silhouettes, neon acrylic artwork inspired by the ...

The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement ... Cosby on 8-track or jazz albums by Count Basie or Miles Davis, a contemporary of Walker’s who was also raised in East ...

As of 2023, more than half of states across the U.S. recognize Juneteenth as a permanent state holiday, according to the Pew Research Center.

After reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk, he appears uniquely qualified to lead a historic transformation of ...

Colloquially known as Presidents’ Day in a nod to the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and other ... for the birthdays of Washington; Lincoln; Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

New defense secretary Pete Hegseth has canceled all cultural awareness months in the Department of Defense, including Black History Month.

In 1907, a numbering system was developed and retroactively applied back to Abraham Lincoln’s administration ... executives — John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and ...