On April 21, 1865, the train carrying the coffin of President Abraham Lincoln departed Washington, D.C. on its way to Springfield, Illinois, where he would be buried on May 4.

The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers, including the Air and Space Museum and the National ...

Reformed by war and marriage, Schiele all but abandoned his wild earlier style, searching for a new future in a broken Europe ...

Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

An enduring myth among American historians is that President Hoover‘s response to the Depression was to let the free market work. This is totally false.

The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order ...

PETERSBURG — Nearly a century after the Civil Conservation Corps reconstructed the once-thriving village of New Salem where Abraham Lincoln spent his 20s working odd jobs, studying law and winning his ...

Biopics often make popular movies by highlighting extraordinary stories of people who experienced and shaped history. Biopics ...

who hung two portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, but gave over the remaining wall space to modern paintings, including two Edward Hoppers on loan from the Whitney Museum. A large oil ...

40.And this is the last picture ever taken of President Ulysses S. Grant, snapped days before his death at his home: Shoutout ...

John Abraham returns to the silver screen with his new film, The Diplomat. The film was released in the theatres on March 14 and has received positive reviews from the audience and critics a like.