The Andrew Jackson Foundation—owner and operator of The Hermitage plantation, the historic home of the seventh President of ...

Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Democrats, introduced in 2019 the Owyhee Act in Congress, which would ...

The DNA Doe Project confirmed his name on Feb. 16 of this year in a press release. The case was actually solved in May of ...

Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC. He died the next morning. Lincoln’s funeral cortege traveled ...

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Texas sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills, launching one of the first challenges to shield laws that ...

There’s still some hope that TikTok could remain active in the United States, though ByteDance has previously indicated it will not sell it. The ban’s legislation leaves room for Biden to ...

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Sarah Emma Edmonds was one of the most well-documented female soldiers in the American Civil War (1861-1865). While women ...

In fact, the fort's fall in January 1865 took an assault of an estimated 8,500 soldiers carried by a large fleet — the ...

Today’s Sports Highlight in History: 1894 — The United States Golf Association is founded, becoming the governing body for the game in the country.

A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented. It abolished slavery in the United States, and now, with the end of the war ...