In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...

In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a ...

A number of early settlers of the Fulton County village were from the Scottish city of Dunfermline (pronounced "Done-ferm-lin") and gave it its name in the 1870s. The Scottish city on the southwestern ...

Imagineering has made its maker for 'Walt Disney - A Magical Life,' which debuts this week at the original Disney park.

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

Doocy has swiftly found a buyer for his longtime $1.8 million New Jersey home after just one week on the market.

Five months after the intoduction of legislation to arrange for President Donald Trump's face to be added onto Mount Rushmore ...

Michael Bell, set to be executed Tuesday, is among at least 34 boys from the Dozier School later sentenced to death. Did ...

Roseland has a legacy of racist real estate practices and disinvestment, but it also holds a place in the hearts of those ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Procession kicks off from Boston City Hall Plaza at 9 a.m. and meanders to the Old State House for the annual reading of the ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...