“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

President Abraham Lin­coln signs a bill ending slavery in Washington, D.C. Approximately nine months later he would issue the ...

The Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) is preparing to welcome visitors once again after nearly four years of renovations. Central ...

One of the biggest prestige TV hits of the past several years, the show’s success is a reminder that post-apocalyptic ...

Melinda French Gates joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss her new book, The Next Day, sharing personal reflections on life ...

Providence native Jarek Marte’s life-changing enlistment led him to serve aboard USS Iwo Jima as a Navy weapons specialist.

Elected as the first governor of the state, Butler built one of the first homes in the new Capital City of Lincoln ... David Christie Butler was born Dec. 15 or 16, 1829, on a farm near Linton ...

My grandparents, Nathan and Domenica Borga DePauli, had a farmette on the Route 61 side of Lawton’s Hill until after World War II. In fact, their house was demolished to make way for the new Route ...

The petition bore around 1,000 signatures, including those of 28 Black veterans who had fought with Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. In response to this petition, Lincoln ...

Marte was born in ... Adjutant Gen. Andrew Chevalier led to the keynote address, given by Frank J. Williams, retired chief justice of the state Supreme Court and an Abraham Lincoln scholar.

Season 41 is currently underway for long-running game show Jeopardy!, and the latest episode saw the reigning champion go up against a San Antonio local. Spoiler alert: We're going to discuss how ...

Arguably the most important opponent of slavery in American history, Thaddeus Stevens is also the most forgotten. If the abolitionist Pennsylvania congressman is known at all today, it’s thanks ...