What Rhonda Hiser discovered behind a bookcase at the Museum of Southern History in Florida was an 1865 American presentation flag that she now believes was draped over the coffin of assassinated ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

A professor from Eastern is a featured historian in a new documentary uncovering the truth of President Abraham Lincoln’s love life. Thomas Balcerski, associate professor of history of the university, ...

While every schoolkid can tell you about Edison, hardly anyone today knows about Peter Cooper and his incredible ...

The drama and conflict of the World War II era have inspired so many great novels — from Atonement and The English Patient to ...

Pontiac, Illinois, will soon be home to 10 Looking for Lincoln storyboards, historic markers that share a community's ties to ...

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“There were times when she would draw hats and then a rabbit coming out of it, and then she would elaborate on the rabbit, turn it upside down, and it’d be a picture of Abraham Lincoln,” said ...

The Delaware County Historical Society is celebrating its birthday and its new location Thursday with an open house and gala event in Media. "Sept. 26 is when we were founded," Paul Hewes, the society ...

Despite his vast wealth, Cooper lived modestly. Ignoring the Victorian Era practice of, “If you got it, flaunt it,” he lived ...