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 ...

Summertime used to be fun — relaxing even. Kids were out of school, driving the adults crazy, while the adults were giving it ...

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 ...

In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...

To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

It was “built circa 1856 for E.T. Robinson and once home to the Sophie B. Wright School and The Catherine Club. This one-of-a ...

But it paid off quite well for three Abraham Lincoln High School students who attended the recent National History Day ...

A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...