Ever wondered which small towns in Pennsylvania are truly worth visiting? These 10 small towns deliver big charm, rich ...

The final memorials we visited on our Spring Honor Flight 2026 trip were located at the western end of the National Mall, all ...

Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. Matthew ...

Nebraska wasn't in existence when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, but it would come to define and shape ...

My cousin was born on the Fourth of July. He wasn’t Tom Cruise in a wheelchair, just an ordinary English boy to whom, other ...

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the turmoil and division the country faces feel more 1850s than 1776.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is perhaps best known as the site of a three-day Civil War battle and President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in 1863, but exploring local history is just the start of ...

Figures from the worlds of entertainment, sports and politics were heavily represented at the event, which boasted a festival-caliber musical lineup.

A historic tree that stood outside Abraham Lincoln’s former home in Springfield for more than a century and a half has been irreparably damaged by severe storms, marking the loss of a living ...

Storms damaged the American linden tree, which was alive when Lincoln lived at the home in Springfield, Ill. He left it in 1861 for the White House. By Emmett Lindner Severe storms on Thursday ...

The following interview, on the moments that defined America as it emerged as a new nation and wrestled with a great divide that would lead to civil war, is excerpted from National Geographic's ...

View post: 1991 Hit, A Rock Band's Signature Song, Named One of the Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time - And It Still Rocks Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at a Civil War cemetery dedication ...