Within the Badlands sits Theodore Roosevelt National Park, a 110-square-mile crowd-free wilderness named for the ...

Walking around my neighborhood this fall, I saw many skeletons. Bones seemed to protrude from every lawn. One evening, taking ...

I was sweeping off my front porch recently and I looked down to see that I had left the Christmas rug out all year. Does that ...

Hidden in the golden foothills of the Sierra Nevada lies a wooden masterpiece that feels like stepping into a postcard from another century – the Bridgeport Covered Bridge in Penn Valley, California.

An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an extraordinary relationship the two had despite the demands the new president had ...

Though Lincoln himself was not Jewish, his words of support drawn from the faith of history’s first Jew continue to serve as ...

“That meant to communicate a morally exemplary Lincoln meant capturing a physically fit Lincoln,” the publication writes.

When the sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor’s monument of Roosevelt was unveiled in Portland in 1922, the then-recently deceased 26th president, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Spanish-American war ...

This image provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows an 1861 job-reference letter written by Abraham Lincoln for his young friend, William Johnson. (Abraham Lincoln ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The short, handwritten note is a typical letter of reference for a man seeking a job. But the author is the president of the United States. It is also 1861, and the job seeker ...