It is also common for visitors and employees to report mysterious taps on the shoulder, haunted alarm clocks that ring ...

Portrait of American President Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) (painted by George P. Healy, mid-late 1800s), (Photo by Katherine Young/Getty Images) In his 2007 book “Land of Lincoln: Adventures in ...

Rupert Murdoch warns judge of Donald Trump’s ‘red herring’ A Massive New Study Says This Is What Happens to People Who Drink Black Coffee Every Day Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The short, handwritten note is a typical letter of reference for a man seeking a job. But the author is the president of the United States. It is also 1861, and the job seeker ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of ...

A new study is pointing a spooky, bony finger to Texas as one of the spookiest states in the country. Being the season of ghouls, witches and skeletons, the team at Hard Rock Bet, an online sportsbook ...

Inside View: Ignore the haters pushing a revisionist history, and recognize the American experiment for the success that it is. As the U.S. nears its 250th birthday, you would think the most basic ...

Heard any stories of ghost sightings in Metro Denver? The answer to that question, asked around the area, was howling yes, with ghost stories based on unusual sightings in the Denver Public Library, ...

On a Friday evening in July 1925, about 30 people crowded into a basement on West 88th Street in Manhattan for a presentation by Mrs. Cecil Cook, a spirit medium. A pan of water and two silver ...

It was 1859. The analogies to the current state of American politics are not precise and even paradoxical. To begin with, John Brown, though crazy and bloodthirsty, was on the right side of history.