Feb. 14, 2025, shows the face of a statue honoring Abraham Lincoln, the president who kept the Union intact during the Civil War, on the Kansas ...

Monday is Presidents’ Day. And while there doesn’t seem to be much agreement as to whether it is meant to celebrate the lives ...

On April 30, 1789, in the first presidential inaugural address, George Washington said: ‘“The preservation of the sacred fire ...

Willett Hancock, curator of exhibitions at the Matheson History Museum, whose senior capstone at UF focused on Union Academy, said the school’s success after the Freedmen’s Bureau left, was a sign of ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the cousin of Emmett Till, told a group in Lincoln it's important to keep telling stories that show ...

Due to cold weather, Fonner Park canceled its first two days of Thoroughbred racing this weekend. The high temperature in ...

Republican President Ronald Reagan and Democrat Speaker of the house, Tip O’Neill, were political foes. To help build a bridge of friendship, Reagan and ...

The January 2025 meeting of the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg featured Dr. Christian B. Keller speaking to his book, “Southern Strategies: Why The Confederacy Failed,” published in 2021 ...

Feb. 17 is Presidents Day. A friend and I were talking about presidents when he said that so many of them were senators, representatives or governors and wondered if any ...