Washington DC attracts millions of visitors every year, but behind the iconic monuments and must-see museums, there’s a wealth of lesser-known gems vying for your attention, writes Helen Van Berkel ...

A Pekin woman who gained her freedom from indentured servitude with the help of Abraham Lincoln more than two decades before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation as president is the subject of a ...

Oliver Rosales, a history professor from Bakersfield College, led the biannual Sal Castro Memorial Lecture on Feb. 26 at the ...

San Pedro Park marker honors first president of Union women’s group; readers asked to help track down a plaque dedicated to ...

Legacy of grads of former all-Black Lincoln High School in SE Gainesville will be etched into perpetuity with the installment ...

The statue commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war.

But Gettysburg has also been a symbol of America’s commitments to freedom and democracy, thanks to the immortal speech that Abraham Lincoln ... the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — with a ...

Devils Tower National Monument – Wyoming Devils Tower, with its striking silhouette, rises dramatically from the plains of northeastern Wyoming. This geological wonder, standing at 867 feet from base ...

Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial Shrine will present historian Megan Kate Nelson, author of the 2020 book “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the ...

The Mellon Foundation sees equity as central to the depiction of America. In 2020, the Foundation decided to center its grantmaking initiatives on social justice, with the goal of influencing cultural ...

An artist’s sketch of a woman hidden on concrete walls deep in the undercroft, or basement, of the Lincoln Memorial for over a century may be graffiti of the early film star Theda Bara ...