Writing to a lawyer, the founding editor of The New York Times conveyed his vast respect for President Abraham Lincoln.

When Gov. JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker visited the pope in Rome on Nov. 19, they gave the pontiff a gift: a ...

A retelling of James Garfield's assassination and other recent TV programs about history show an interest in saying 'who we ...

Time seems to be going faster than ever, but it’s still important to remember and learn from the past, writes Lynne Agress.

On October, 23, 2025, Encounter Books honored Charles R. Kesler with the Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals during ...

Surveyor Edward Gillette saved a railroad thousands of dollars by rerouting tracks near Donkey Creek in northeast Wyoming, ...

Netflix's Death By Lightning is one of the best things the streamer has released in years. Here are 12 other shows that have ...

The town officially named Santa Claus is located in the US state of Indiana. Establishment: The settlement, originally named Santa Fe, was established in 1854.

In 2015, a group of Florida scholars, including this writer, began assembling mini-biographies of Florida’s governors. The ...

Publishers will release as many as 1 million books this year, so good luck summarizing that. But if what I read and loved in ...

It was not even the first national Thanksgiving – which was held on Dec. 18, 1777, at then-General Washington’s behest. Nor was Thanksgiving yet a federal holiday to be observed every last Thursday of ...