In recent decades, Gettysburg has come to be understood less as a military encounter than as an emancipatory turning point.

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legendary Emancipation Proclamation—one of the most significant documents in human history and a grand edict that paved the way to the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The city of Spokane and members of the Downtown Spokane Partnership Clean Team will spend Tuesday cleaning up paint that was thrown onto an Abraham Lincoln statue downtown. The ...

After whom should one name a school? The United States faces enormous economic, political, and international challenges. However, that isn’t what captured public attention in Harrisonburg, Virginia, ...

U.S. Navy Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Ozzy Hammond fires a shot line on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during fueling-at-sea with Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) in Springfield. The historic ...

Thomas Nast's illustration "Santa Claus in Camp" made the jolly old elf a friend to the Union cause during the Civil War. (Image published with permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is ...

B.B. King, William Faulkner and James Earl Ray were among the history-making figures — for good and ill — interviewed by Jane Sanderson during her decades in Memphis as a reporter for The Commercial ...

Remember the name Christopher Shea. You’ll see why later. It is generally agreed that Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech in American history. After all, that’s the speech ...

Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the father of the late Tejano legend Selena Quintanilla, died Dec. 13, the Quintanilla family confirmed in an Instagram post. The Corpus Christi resident was 86. “Abraham was ...

As a teenager, he hoped to make it big in the Tejano music world. He realized that dream through his daughter. By Jesus Jiménez Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the music producer who recognized a talented ...