Abraham Lincoln DeMond 1889 Day was initiated in 2023 to honor DeMond, Cortland’s first Black alum. He graduated just 24 ...

Visiting Abraham Lincoln's birthplace and early childhood home within the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park ...

The story of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train will be the topic for the Vernon County Historical Society’s first ...

According to the U.S. Department of State, in 1789 George Washington began the tradition of taking the oath with a hand on ...

Illinois, ready to choose a state flag? Voting is open in the the new state flag design contest. The public can vote online at for one of the new designs, or for one of three flags that have already ...

Katherine Jane Chase was born in Cincinnati on a muggy Thursday ... Party’s presidential nomination in 1860, losing to Abraham Lincoln. Though he was re-elected to the Senate that fall, the ...

IN 1984 I delivered a paper at a conference on Abraham Lincoln and the American political tradition. This occasion was my first public foray into the perilous arena of Lincoln scholarship ...

Ms Itooka, who loved bananas and a yoghurt-flavoured Japanese drink called Calpis, was born in 1908. She became the oldest person last year after the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas ...

The 1836 little village of Danville he was born in no longer existed ... Lawrence had taken and passed the law exam administered by Abraham Lincoln in Danville in 1854. Lesley’s office was in the ...

There's been another exit from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. Christian McWhirter, the Lincoln Historian at the ALPLM, confirmed his resignation via LinkedIn ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in states rebelling ...

The first babies of 2025 have been born, making them the very first of a new generation - which has been dubbed as Generation Beta. Generation Alpha births came to an end at the end of 2024 ...