Before they got to the White House, these future presidents worked as lawyers, journalists, and businessmen.

"My name is Ralph C. Lincoln and I am honored to be an 11th generation Lincoln who also shares the same great-grandfather as ...

A new book details correspondence — letters long assumed to have been lost or destroyed -– that shed light on the nature of ...

Born in Riverside, Illinois — about three hours from where Abraham Lincoln had lived with his family in Springfield — to ...

A new book follows Lyman Beecher, his boundary-pushing children, and their grand ambitions to improve the world.

The event at the college’s Hermann Fine Arts Center featured food, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass reenactment ...

The handbill that informed slaves in Texas of their freedom was given out June 19, 1865, more than two years after President ...

Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, is this week. Here's everything to ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and ...

Artists and writers from around the world have conveyed black people’s struggles, triumphs and contributions to American ...

In February, the AP refused to revise its style guide to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by President Donald Trump’s preferred ...