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One is Lincoln, the other Booth, and the two struggle and hustle to survive in this play, which ends Saturday.
Did you ever notice how the weather sneaks into our everyday conversations—and even our history? U.S. Presidents, standing at ...
Lincoln surrounded himself with strong, capable people. Lincoln assembled a “team of rivals” in his cabinet, which had former ...
Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in ...
Good afternoon and happy Friday, readers! It’s a beautiful day here in Washington, D.C., and a relatively slow news day – at least relative to the pace of the past few months. But there is a debate ...
Williamsburg Mayor Douglas Pons said it was exciting to see the community come together positively to celebrate. He reflected ...
She was at the forefront of a movement to make Juneteenth a national holiday. For years, she convened marches of ...
Juneteenth commemorates the day when some of the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned that they were free in Galveston, ...
“Liberty & Justice for All” read one sign on the outskirts of Middlebury (along Route 7 where the car caravan from the Mass ...
Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by ...
A date that speaks of freedom delayed. On that day, Union Army General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced what should have already been a reality. The Emancipation Proclamation, ...