The proposed National Garden of American Heroes faces major practical hurdles that experts say make it entirely unworkable ...

Some families have celebrated Juneteenth for generations while some people are less familiar with it. The purpose of this ...

While the practice of preserving bodies can be traced back thousands of years to ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, American embalming developed as a distinct tradition during the 19th century, ...

I often wonder what meal was served to Abraham Lincoln and his entourage at the David Wills House in Gettysburg, on the evening of Nov. 18, 1863, the night before ...

Just in case Abraham Lincoln ever wishes to give an encore performance of that famous speech he delivered in 1863 at ...

That places Starfighter further down the Star Wars timeline than any Star Wars movie or series to date. What do we know about this period of Star Wars lore? Not a whole lot, frankly. That said ...

Stewart McLaurin is the host of The White House 1600 Sessions podcast and the president of the White House Historical ...

There is perhaps no more extraordinary place of honor for a statue in West Virginia than in the plaza in front of its state ...

Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio has been named among the top 10 most-visited burial sites in the US on ...

Week 4 of the Karen Read retrial featured tense cross-exams, flirtatious texts, forensics disputes, and new questions about motive, timeline, and credibility.

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...

After her release, Mary Todd Lincoln lived a relatively quiet life, although she remained plagued by both psychiatric and ...