An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...

British abolitionists recognized the contradiction in the colonists’ position. One of the founders of the abolitionist ...

Abraham Lincoln's 1861 handwritten letter recommending his Black friend William Johnson for a job is now on display at the ...

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 ...

November 6th is a date that has witnessed a variety of significant events throughout history, spanning the realms of politics ...

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 ...

Explain what happened today, Tom Daschle, you've let one of the most important domestic issues, which is health care, get ...

Christina Shutt, Executive Director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, joins John Williams to ...

On a Friday evening in July 1925, about 30 people crowded into a basement on West 88th Street in Manhattan for a presentation by Mrs. Cecil Cook, a spirit medium. A pan of water and two silver ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook DC K.O. #1 is the perfect first issue for an event comic; it drops readers into a basically ...

Billionaire Ray Dalio warned Friday that surging U.S. debt and hardening political divides under Donald Trump are pushing the country toward civil war. The veteran hedge fund manager, 76, warned that ...

Charlie Kirk's widow revealed he might have sought the presidency, driven by conviction, not ambition. President Trump honored the late MAGA commentator with a Rose Garden ceremony on his birthday, ...