Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Last summer, an intern named Dan Martin at the Historic Films Archive in Greenport, New York, made an unexpected discovery. [ ...

The film explores the life of Abraham Lincoln, highlighting his humble beginnings as a poor farm boy in Kentucky, his limited ...

With Abraham Lincoln’s 216th birthday Feb. 12 and Presidents’ Day Feb. 17, the lives of previous U.S. presidents can provide ...

In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold ...

What a difference a year makes—or in this case just four weeks since Trump’s inauguration—regarding the state of the nation ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

The holiday hasn’t been celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday of Feb. 22, or any other president’s birthday, for more ...

Washington, Lincoln and even Millard Fillmore and are among the presidents honored with Denver streets — and there's also one ...

Johnson will be performing his one-act, one-man play “The Night Before Gettysburg” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, at the Moorhead Public Library.

By Tracey Howerton Special to NKyTribune Have you ever written a letter to the President of the United States? Dr. Benjamin ...

An obscure New Jerseyan named William Dayton nearly knocked Abraham Lincoln out of his place in history. Dayton was elected to the New Jersey Legislature ...