When Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, it took just six years before the first American football game was played on the holiday. My question is, what took so long?

In the debates over the 14th Amendment in 1866, Sen. John Conness argued convincingly that "children of all parentage ...

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

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

A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forev­er before being found in a warehouse on New York’s Long Island. Dan Martin, a summer intern at Historic Films Archive in Greenport ...

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