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

Illinois offers endless ways to plan an exciting spring vacation; from city stays to road trips to outdoor exploration, every ...

Born about 1840, the daughter of a black father and a part-Ojibwa mother, she was orphaned ... from heroic images of Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln and Senator Charles Sumner to a small ...

Lincoln was the second, in 1865.) Thousands of mourners attended his funeral. But within years, he lay in an unkempt grave in Lancaster ... leaving his mother to cope with a farm and four children.

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

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

Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/Tomishige/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images Tuesday is the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. That grim milestone invites speculation ...

Ashley Blas visited her mother's grave for the first time since the funeral. The driver who took her noticed grass covering part of the stone. In... A stranger helps a grieving daughter clean her ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president ... "stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the ...