On April 15, 2019, a devastating fire collapsed the roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral, but fire officials said they ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

April 14 is the 160th anniversary of the assassination of Lincoln. What if John Wilkes Booth had chosen reconciliation over ...

Abraham Lincoln remains one of America’s enduring figures and most famous presidents. However, one man does not exist in a ...

Lewin Henry Cohen was a fascinating 19th century physician with a famous relative. He was born in Scotland to English parents ...

“Equal rights & Justice to all white men in the United States forever,” urges John McMahon of Hambrook, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 5, 1864. “White men is in class number one & black men in class number two ...

John Wilkes Booth's father – developed a love for Texas after getting to know Sam Houston personally from his early days as a ...

If the beard barrier has fallen in politics, could tattoos be next? Trump’s controversial Defense secretary has tattoos.

the Civil War famously set “brother against brother.” Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy’s president, and Abraham Lincoln were both White Protestants, and nobody finds it shocking that they ...