SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Union Pacific will bring its Abraham Lincoln locomotive to Springfield, the hometown of the 16th ...

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 ...

Reconciliation bill still sinking with voters; New York mayoral muddle; DNC’s chair agonistes; Crowded field could save ...

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She was at the forefront of a movement to make Juneteenth a national holiday. For years, she convened marches of ...

As she held her 8-month-old son, Khalid, Medina refocused on the history of Juneteenth including U.S. Union troops who ...

Juneteenth commemorates the day when some of the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned that they were free in Galveston, ...