Since Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, its recognition has continued to grow in Michigan and nationally too.

This year brings the 160th anniversary of June 19, 1865, a major turning point in the fight to end slavery in the U.S.

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

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of ...

"Love Creek in Ben Lomond was named after Capt. Harry Love," writes Local History columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "He was ...

On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the Coming ...

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

Lincoln, worried that conciliatory overtures toward the South would appear weak, employed a preinaugural strategy of ...

Items on view include a portrait of formerly enslaved individuals and an image of a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The exhibition features big names in American photography, such ...

American currency as we know it today has been in circulation since 1792. Founding Fathers, past presidents, and a selection ...

Joanna Miller said the theme park's method of celebrating the American icon makes "no sense" and comes off as "empty of a ...

Few American presidents have leveraged self-images for political messaging — and sometimes personal gain — in the way Trump has throughout his political career.