Mount Rushmore wasn’t really his idea. Robinson conceived the original concept in a bid to boost tourism. As it sits in the ...

This trio of history-inspired series offer up even more presidential plights and A-list ensembles—heres's what to watch after ...

Historian Douglas R. Egerton will discuss his new book, "A Man on Fire," about 19th-century reformer and writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson, on Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Stockbridge Library.

Pete Davidson startled locals on Orchard Street by brawling with a pack of vagrants, but bystanders quickly realized there were cameras rolling.

The jury found Guiteau guilty in January. After losing his appeal, Guiteau was hanged on June 30, 1882—two days before the ...

Charles Guiteau assassinated President James Garfield in 1881, ending his presidency after just six months and altering the ...

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding Father’s words to present him as an abolitionist without mentioning he had ...

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North Carolina holds some of the most beautiful old houses you'll ever see. Walking through these historic homes feels like ...

In literature, the use of nicknames serves to reveal personality traits that are crucial for character development, and to ...

Though Lincoln himself was not Jewish, his words of support drawn from the faith of history’s first Jew continue to serve as ...

An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...