The Tony-winning play paints Abraham Lincoln's wife as a boozy aspiring actress, but how does history really remember her?

Across Illinois, once-bustling river ports and mining towns now sit silent, their fading buildings quietly preserving the stories of a forgotten past.

We're heading back in time to the 1800s to revisit the Seward family.William Henry Seward served as Governor, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State for Abraham L ...

What you should know about Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and "Lincoln Portrait" and Shostakovich’s monumental Fifth ...

Currently, our president has decided that he, and he alone, holds the purse strings for the United States Treasury. It seems ...

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy supports including a statue of slain Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in President Trump ...

If you try to keep pace with Marsden Fisher, bring good boots and an even better planner. In the past year alone, the ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

Self-identified “progressive” Democrats and Jacobin magazine are defending the longtime soldier for US imperialism even as ...

In his book Why Courage Matters, the late senator and war hero John McCain relates that the legendary college football coach ...