Just in case Abraham Lincoln ever wishes to give an encore performance of that famous speech he delivered in 1863 at ...

From standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., where Martin Luther King Jr. declared “I Have a Dream” ...

1626: An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people. 1640: Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens dies aged 62.

On Feb. 21, 1861, on his way to his inauguration, Abraham Lincoln made a brief appearance in Bucks County, writes JD Mullane ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — two years after the ...

Officials are asking Nebraskans to donate a popular, discontinued wax to protect the statue of Abraham Lincoln on the west side of the Capitol. The cast-bronze statue of the former president is ...

"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

Family, friends and religious figures lauded the life of one of the Israeli Embassy staffers fatally shot in Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump may face headaches as he tries to cobble together hundreds of statues before the 250th birthday of the ...

Wyoming’s memorial to America’s 16th president is impossible to miss. Abraham Lincoln’s 13-and-a-half-foot tall, two-plus-ton bronze head sits on a 30-foot-high granite pedestal, surveying ...

The D.C. Capital Jewish Museum reopened Thursday with a solemn program honoring the lives of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah ...

Jewish community leaders and people who wanted to show support gathered for a show of solidarity Wednesday night.