President Abraham Lincoln, with young son Tad and Senator Charles Sumner, salutes a detachment of African-American Union troops in Richmond, Virginia at the end of the American Civil War. Published in ...

Reservations are being taken at 217-235-5661 for the Coles County Historical Society’s July 21 Founder’s Day Dinner, which will feature a presentation on Mary Todd Lincoln.

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. See how those policies affected everyday Americans in ...

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

It’s not yet seven weeks since two of the most powerful men in America bid each other a fond farewell during a meeting in the ...

Ivy League professor father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani linked Hitler's Holocaust to Abraham Lincoln during comments at a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society.

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

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

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Henry C. Longnecker (1820-1871) was born in Cumberland County but later made Lehigh County and Allentown his home. He served ...

"The solution is not returning to some mythical state of pre-Trump administration American equality, but actually ...