Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on November 6. Check what happened ...

Netflix’s Death by Lightning retells James Garfield’s assassination. See the eight U.S. presidents who never finished their ...

The other vision — an animating force inside the Trump administration — is exclusive and ethnonationalist. Vice President JD ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we collectively believe they do. Every nation is defined and shaped by the stories ...

In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling denied Black citizenship, upheld slavery, and stands as one of the Court's ...

Photography has come a long way since the first ever photo saw the light of day. We've gone from painstakingly exposing metal ...

Few places along the Mississippi River tell America s story of belief as vividly as Quincy, the river city perched on the bluffs in the westernmost point of Illinois ...

Holiday traditions feel timeless, like they’ve always existed in their current form. Families gather around Christmas trees.

Lincoln, Illinois stands as a delightful anomaly in today’s fast-paced world – a place where handshakes still mean something, where storefront windows display actual merchandise instead of “for lease” ...

Just about 30 miles northeast of Springfield and 160 miles southwest of Chicago, Lincoln sits like a time capsule along Route 66, waiting for travelers smart enough to exit the highway and discover ...

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

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.