When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

Abraham Lincoln assassination coverage revisited. ... Six of the papers came from two collections the museum purchased, and the seventh is on loan from a private collector.

Artists and writers from around the world have conveyed black people’s struggles, triumphs and contributions to American ...

The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

Not only are semicolons evidently becoming more rare, but young people are less aware of how to use them, according to a ...

Trump’s attack on the stewards of our country’s heritage and history is an attack on our national sense of self.

Like him or not, the Missouri senator is wicked smart. Will his influence fade like Cruz’s in the post-Trump Republican Party ...

In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that the government could not prevent The New York Times or The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers. In 1971 ... depicting a freed slave kneeling ...

The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

My late brother Dave was something of a hoarder, particularly of family mementos. When his house was cleaned out after his passing, a box containing Buck's Civil War books was found.

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in ...