Before he became the president that carried America through the Civil War and emancipated the nation's slaves, Abraham ...

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...

A new biography suggests that the eighth U.S. president, who was born in Kinderhook, deserves to be remembered — though not ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

With each reference to the supposed “invasion” across the United States’s southern border, we saw a growing risk that Trump ...

He chose February because the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass were celebrated this month. Lincoln’s birthday was Feb. 12, and Douglass, born a slave, didn’t ...

The first Latina judge to serve on the Supreme Court of Justice is clear about the limits of executive power. A reminder for ...

He was the president during the most significant moment in our nation’s history. One can find as much scholarly material on ...

In the first case to reach the Supreme Court arising from the blitz of actions taken in the early weeks of the new ...

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

The Trump administration’s executive orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs disregard and dishonor the 250-year history of women, ethnic minorities and historically underrepresented ...