Charleston Community Theatre will present speeches by Abraham Lincoln and others, interspersed with music, during "Voices of ...

The Genealogical Society event will start at 10 a.m. Saturday at Charleston's library, visit three patriot graves, and end ...

Daniel Mendelsohn has little time for the staged culture wars that have erupted over Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic “The Odyssey” which comes out on ...

imon Jefferson had a remarkable story to tell. But nobody wanted to listen. He was a victim of antebellum attitudes, the pre-Civil War era when people often paid no mind to what a black man had to say ...

Soaring temperatures endangered rare copies of the 160-year-old antislavery papers signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

A look back at the most infamous, shocking, blood-curdling or mysterious true crime stories from Illinois that captured the attention of the nation — and the world.

Crews are draining the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool again as President Donald Trump's problem-plagued effort to ...

Abraham Lincoln, for one, may have had the syndrome—and are at very high risk of a kind of fatal rupture in the heart.

Alternative facts have always been with us, and they've always been used to cover up uncomfortable truths. Here's some history you'll want to rewrite in your memory.

What we think about history and who our heroes are should not be dictated to Americans by the churlish fiat of any four-year federal administration, whether of the left or the right. Neither ...

Inside View: Ignore the haters pushing a revisionist history, and recognize the American experiment for the success that it is. Photo: Michael Brochstein/Zuma Press ‘How long ago is it—80-odd years?” ...

The capsule was created and filled at the direction of Congress, through the America250 commission. It will be interred ...