In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...

Reservations are being taken at 217-235-5661 for the Coles County Historical Society’s July 21 Founder’s Day Dinner, which will feature a presentation on Mary Todd Lincoln.

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

From Louisville to Versailles, the French influence still echoes in the names of Kentucky cities and counties today.

Alton’s first baseball action was in 1858 ...

President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

A Good Day’s Work” repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, ...

The concert on June 18 led by the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra (UPSO) dubbed “Alay sa Pamantasan ng ...

Beloved "Fox & Friends" host Steve Doocy has found a buyer for his $1.8 million New Jersey home in a matter of days-and just a few weeks after announcing that he would be trading the Northeast for ...

Central Park Plaza | Various downtown Jacksonville businesses participating. Morgan County Fair: Morgan County Fairgrounds, 110 N. Westgate Ave. Gate admission: $5; Sunday: free | For more information ...

The proclamations used to land in my inbox like clockwork — the remembrances of holidays and landmarks, the celebrations of awareness months, the noting of anniversaries both celebratory and tragic.