In its 8:45 a.m. edition, the Herald carried the first news that Lincoln had succumbed to his head wound just one hour and 23 minutes earlier. "EXTRA. DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT!!" the front page blared.

When Abraham Lincoln died in 1865, felled by an assassin’s bullet at the end of the Civil War, he left behind a considerable legacy. But Lincoln did not leave behind many descendants. In 1985 ...

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To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...

Theme park lovers and history buffs, listen up! Disney World's Hall of Presidents quietly reopened to the public on June 29.

Scheidies: "History is simply your story, my story. It is the story of the famous, the infamous and the neighbor next door." ...

To better understand history, we must understand how people thought and acted in the context of their times and the prevailing worldviews of that era.

Theme park lovers and history buffs, listen up! Disney World's Hall of Presidents quietly reopened to the public on June 29.

Here’s a look at the life of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. Personal Birth date: July 6, 1946 Birth place: New Haven, Connecticut Birth name: George Walker Bush Father: ...

Baseless social media theories claim the USS Nimitz will be sacrificed in a false flag attack, but experts dismiss these as ...