In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was admitted to the union as the 41st state. In ...

Death by Lightning" dropped on the streamer, and it tells the true story of President James Garfield's election and his ...

In the next 56 minutes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of the Civil War, slavery, and of Frederick Douglas, offered a ...

The 20th President of the United States had the potential to be one of the greats, according to many – until his ...

St. Augustine’s Potter’s Wax Museum houses over 160 incredibly lifelike wax figures that straddle the line between fascinating and freaky. Standing face-to-face with these frozen celebrities, ...

A decades-long tradition held each year on the second weekend in November, Host of Christmas Past is set for Friday, Nov. 14 ...

Trump, who has had a long career in real estate has been putting his design stamp on all manner of things at the White House.

Donald Trump's ornate Lincoln bathroom remodel was mocked online Friday as "tone deaf" and worse as he faces backlash over the East Wing.

Democrats are already threatening to tear down the new ballroom that President Donald Trump is building on the East Wing of ...

In 1862, jewelry engraver and amateur photographer William H. Mumler was developing a self-portrait in his Boston studio when a ghostly image began to surface. Just below his own image in the photo ...

Living souls can be sparse at cemeteries, but that’s not by design. Many cemeteries, including these five in Maryland, are well worth a visit.

Dan Shannon of Anderson Township has created a national contest to find the best poem about America. Poet Thomas Buchanan Read wrote the famous Civil War poem “Sheridan’s Ride” in Cincinnati, first ...