Although Nebraska’s earliest cabins were lit only by candles, coal oil lanterns followed quickly, and less than a decade ...

TAKE a walk in the Dean Cemetery on the west side of Edinburgh and you will find a memorial that is emblazoned with the distinctive battle flag ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

In his post-inauguration column in The Virginia Gazette on Jan. 29, Joseph Filko did a great job of laying out his hopes and ...

John Ganson died in 1874 and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo. His obituary stated that “He was a War Democrat, ...

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

Several years ago, my family came upon some architectural salvage from the Brant House in Columbus, Ill. Of the items we ...

The Senate had passed the Amendment on April 8, 1864. Ganson, who was born in Le Roy, represented the 30th Congressional ...

Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching direction. When the Republican Party was ...

With February underway, Presidents' Day will soon be observed as the country's next federal holiday on the third Monday of ...

It’s a slip, not a fall,” Abraham Lincoln said after his loss in his legendary 1858 Illinois Senate contest against Stephen Douglas. Liz Cheney apparently has the same attitude after her ...

Just in time for the Oscars. A coveted long-lost silent film about President Abraham Lincoln was recently discovered on Long ...