Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the ancestry of actor Sharon Stone ... That victory helped ensure Abraham Lincoln's reelection to a second term the following month. And your ancestor was there.

The emeritus history professor and dean from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is now a board member for the ...

Celebrate Black History Month, get an early start on Valentine’s Day and make plans for the big game — a.k.a. Puppy Bowl.

Beginning Feb. 1, schools, museums and communities across the nation will mark the start of Black History Month –- a ...

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

Not Tree Abraham. In her memoir, “Elseship: An Unrequited Affair,” she conducts a forensic investigation of her futile romantic obsession with a former housemate. “Elseship” begins where m ...

In the new documentary Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln, a group of scholars argue that the 16th President of the United States had sexual relationships with multiple men during ...

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two new plays about her, she is finally getting better press. During last ...

Ancestry predicted that we were "half 2nd cousin 1x removed," but the shared DNA quantity doesn't necessarily place the relationship on a family tree. It just tells you how many jumps away one ...

Croatia offers citizenship by ancestry to descendants of anyone born in the territory now defined as the Republic of Croatia and who emigrated from the area before October 8, 1991. You can claim ...