Greatness often comes quietly and obscurely. Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president, was born on Sunday morning Feb. 12, ...

The highest price ever seen for a bronze Lincoln 1943-S penny was sold to collector Bob R. Simpson, co-chairman of the Texas ...

Charles Darwin, famed for his theory of evolution, profoundly influenced modern biology. Notably, Darwin shared a birthdate ...

The argument that “it happens so rarely that it isn’t a problem” ignores fairness. The rarity of an action doesn’t make it ...

Never let them tell you that nothing ever changes in politics. In 1996, just 27 percent of American adults believed that the ...

Technically, all three ways of punctuating Presidents' Day are correct. "Presidents' Day" implies celebrating more than one ...

Battle of the Herrings fought during Hundred Years’ War when French and Scottish troops unsuccessfully attack English convoy (carrying ...

They made their way out onto the large porch surrounding the north end of the house where a Victrola played quietly. The conversation that then began would lead to the founding of the Los Angeles ...

WASHOUGAL — Doctors said he might live for months, but Genia Stemper’s father lasted just four days after his sudden, shocking diagnosis of stage 4 cancer.

New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch mingle hidden history with nail-biting detective work in their ...

Scarcely a year later, the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Mickey’s home, where the Rev. James ... whose first vote had been cast for Abraham Lincoln as president, was nominated ...

I can’t remember when I met Dr. Olivia Hooker, a Tulsa Massacre survivor, the first African American woman to serve in the ...