This marks the 160th anniversary of Union soldiers marching to destroy Raleigh as punishment for Lincoln’s assassination, ...

As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s ...

In 1775, the American Revolutionary War began in Lexington, Massachusetts, with the “Shot Heard Round the World” fired later that day in Concord.

For the first time, the Oklahoma Trail of Tears Association marked the graves of Cherokee Freedmen who survived the Trail of ...

Jeopardy!” disrespected the legacy of one of America’s most iconic women by airing a segment April 14 that depicted a ...

In Wrightsville, there were no such recorded outbursts, as tears for the slain president were shed throughout the town, which had voted for Lincoln. “Copperheads are as silent as the grave,” a ...

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's ...

Soul brothers Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele meet at the White House. (Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images.) For some ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who ...

of President Abraham Lincoln, created circa 1895-1900 by George B. Ayres, using Alexander Hesler's original 1860 collodion negative. Manila envelope pen-inscribed“Geo. B. Ayres” at upper left ...