Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the ...

Two of Illinois' best museums are in Springfield, according to a site that ranks the best such places in the Prairie State.

A 1868 lithograph from the Library of Congress depicts Alton's riverfront, featuring City Hall and the Chicago & Alton ...

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

At the production company Film4 he was instrumental in financing British movies. In New York, his goal is to attract a ...

For now, Democrats can take heart that no party remains lost forever. But they must also understand that the pendulum does ...

Eight students at Southwest Open School in Cortez who serve on student government have dabbled in journalism since February.

There is a clear consensus among historians on these points. No, the income tax was not a mistake. But it was something ...

Decades ago, Washington Square Park often drew crowds of 2,000 or more, and by the early 1900s it had acquired the unofficial ...

This list isn’t just a snooze-worthy textbook version of Lincoln’s life. Nope! These are real places I’ve visited—some epic, ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...