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

This wine trail in Maryland offers exquisite vineyard views, a tasty array of wines, and some historical charm.

The larger-than-life legacy of Abraham Lincoln lies, in part, in the smallest special-collections division of the University ...

Once upon a time, the Prince of Wales came to you might say a magical place called The Mansion House hotel in Mount Carbon, ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln -- the highlight of a fascinating catalog -- sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $12 million.

Regional animosities have existed in Illinois since before it was admitted to the Union in 1818 as the 21st state, and only ...

You’re weighing the totality of consequences — the 750,000 deaths, the bitterness that metastasized into Jim Crow, the Confederacy's martyr mythos that still haunts us — against the possibility of a ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Roger Q. Mason’s stage play and film Lavender Men considers Abraham Lincoln's love life and interrogates American mythology.

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program earned a cash prize.

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at rec ...

Jones's book Allan Pinkerton offers a riveting account of a largely overlooked figure whose shadow still looms over modern ...