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

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

On July 7, 2005, terrorists struck the London transit system, setting off explosions in three subway cars and a double-decker ...

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

For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...

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

It is downright absurd and inexcusably despicable for Mr . Martin Kpebu, the notorious apparatchik of the presently ruling ...

Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan's life after an assassination ...

I have lived under 14 different presidents. If I could, with a wave of my hand, I would bring Nixon back as our president now ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

According to myth, the ghost of George Washington cursed anyone serving more than four years. But a nonconsecutive second ...