One of the quirks of the Bluegrass state is that it was the birthplace of the presidents of both the Union and the ...

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

William “Bill” Hanchett was a Berkeley-educated history scholar. He was a civilian historian for the U.S. Air Force and for more than 30 years taught U.S. history at San Diego State University, where ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

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

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This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid $18.1 million for copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

The larger-than-life legacy of Abraham Lincoln lies, in part, in the smallest special-collections division of the University ...

Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

You’re weighing the totality of consequences — the 750,000 deaths, the bitterness that metastasized into Jim Crow, the Confederacy's martyr mythos that still haunts us — against the possibility of a ...