The term is a reference to a promise made to formerly enslaved Black Americans that was revoked after the Civil War and ...

Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History is hallmarking Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday with the start of a coloring contest to celebrate Lincoln and work on a mural ...

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

Need some inspiration for the hidden gifts within your mental health struggles? Lincoln and Darwin got you covered.

On this day 125 years ago the Black National Anthem was first performed, written by James Weldon Johnson and with music ...

More than three years after a plan for a National Juneteenth Museum was hatched, developers have secured land in Fort Worth.

The Heart of Lincoln,” a 1922 movie directed by the pioneering filmmaker Francis Ford, was found at a stock-footage library ...

Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Ph.D. – former president of Spelman College and recipient of the National Humanities Medal presented ...

Thursday and Friday mark three days of memories, love, respect and sharing. Our 16th president was born on Feb. 12, Giving ...

Flick Fact: Where can you see an exact replica of Abraham Lincoln, with his exact body measurements — and in B-N besides?

"The Whole World Is a Mystery" at the Carnegie Museum of Art marks the first retrospective look at Gertrude Abercrombie in ...