President Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War and played a major role in the abolition of slavery after ...

An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...

Today in History for Nov. 6: ...

Today is Thursday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2025 with 55 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Neptune, ...

Netflix’s Death by Lightning retells James Garfield’s assassination. See the eight U.S. presidents who never finished their ...

America is readying to celebrate its 250th birthday and there’s no better time to get to know the history of the state of Nevada. Nevada officially became a part of the United States on Oct. 31, 1864 ...

On Oct. 31, 1864, as the Civil War neared its climax and Abraham Lincoln sought reelection, the U.S. Congress welcomed Nevada as the 36th state, a political and strategic move forged in the heat of ...

In 1862, jewelry engraver and amateur photographer William H. Mumler was developing a self-portrait in his Boston studio when a ghostly image began to surface. Just below his own image in the photo ...

In October 2020, during demonstrations known as the “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage,” protesters in Portland’s South Park Blocks toppled statues of Abraham ...

When the sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor’s monument of Roosevelt was unveiled in Portland in 1922, the then-recently ...

Union Army reenactors march to their spot on the battlefield at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park on Sunday morning. The ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...