It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. As a student of leadership, I found it one of the most insightful books on the theme. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

Two deeper histories on people mentioned in a recent column: a famous orator and a mother and son who survived the Holocaust.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Raine King, a native of Council Bluffs, serves aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, a U.S. Navy aircraft ...

Hartke, a Democrat, represented several rural counties in southeastern Illinois in the state House from 1985 until 2003, when ...

A portrait of John F. Kennedy sits on one wall of the Riverton room, accompanied by one of Abraham Lincoln. Along a large ...

A recent Grammy-award winning group will be at this year’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, the Cool Spring Downtown District announced Thursday. This year’s celebration will be from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

For the first time, the Oklahoma Trail of Tears Association marked the graves of Cherokee Freedmen who survived the Trail of ...

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...