Many of the early leaders, staff and financial supporters of Columbus Public Library when it opened in 1873 were ...

On April 21, 1865, the train carrying the coffin of President Abraham Lincoln departed Washington, D.C. on its way to Springfield, Illinois, where he would be buried on May 4.

Trump’s golden age looks an awful lot like a new Gilded Age,” wrote Politico this month, reflecting on the second ...

Reporter covering local news, Washington institutions and historical topics. Education: Villanova University, BA and MA in history; Nieman fellow, Harvard University Michael E. Ruane is a general ...

The U.S. Secret Service shot an armed Indiana man near the White House early Sunday morning, officials said. The name of the man, his Hoosier State hometown and his condition were not immediately ...

David Leroy — a former Idaho lieutenant governor, attorney general and Abraham Lincoln historian — gave a presentation for Idaho Day at the Museum of Idaho Wednesday evening. “Lincoln had an ...

The Act of Settlement of 1701 was designed to secure the Protestant succession to the throne, and to strengthen the guarantees for ensuring a parliamentary system of government. The Act also ...

The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or since. It was a period of unprecedented economic growth and technological ...

1807, the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves was signed ... went into effect as the first Federal Congress met in New York. 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term ...

A recently introduced bipartisan resolution in the State House calls on Congress to pass the Reducing Accidents in Locomotives Act, which supporters say addresses critical safety issues in the ...