It is one of thousands of such heart-rending pleas that appeared in papers across the country, starting even before slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and continuing as late as the ...
Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...
The need to pursue a calling, not only as a means of livelihood, but also as a measure of making full use of one’s faculties, is the fuel that drives the engine of life ...
Founding Father Alexander Hamilton became a father for the first time when his son, Philip, was born on January 22, 1782. "He ...
Her father, New Hampshire-born Salmon Chase, was an ambitious Buckeye lawyer who had trouble keeping ... nomination in 1860, losing to Abraham Lincoln. Though he was reelected to the Senate ...
In Sculptural Copper: Saved from the Smelter, visitors will explore an array of copper specimens that these miners collected ...
Black History Month honors the achievements and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history, and it’s a great time ...
That guy Will Shakespeare gave us a lot of phrases that now come trippingly to the tongue. (Get it? That’s one of Shakespeare’s phrases.) But Shakespeare often gets credit for a line that actually was ...
Donald Trump returned to power as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, saying in his second inaugural address ...
In conjunction with the February celebration of the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln ... The book portrays Lincoln as an absent-minded frontier lawyer who nudged his memory by sticking letters, ...