On July 6, I stood up in front of my church’s congregation, holding tightly to my guitar and taking one last look at the ...

Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...

New scholarship shows that Abraham Lincoln was a deeply sensitive man who embraced radical acts of inclusion to keep the Union intact.

Actor Jeff Daniels suggested Kamala Harris would have governed like Abraham Lincoln by creating a "team of rivals" cabinet, while lamenting her loss in the 2024 presidential election.

The USS Abraham Lincoln Needs Refueling Each Nimitz -class supercarrier has the capacity to hold approximately three million gallons of JP-5 fuel in its onboard tanks, which is typically ...

A bust of Abraham Lincoln and a map showing “Gulf of America” written on it is pictured in the Oval Office of the White House as President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce that ...

Ivy League professor father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani linked Hitler's Holocaust to Abraham Lincoln during comments at a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society.

Ever wondered about the origins of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture seated on a bench in downtown Bloomington? Here's a look back at its roots in the city's sesquicentennial celebration on July 1, 2000.

Griffin, the founder and chief executive of Citadel, broke the auction record for a Lincoln-signed document.

An event marking the official end to slavery in the United States took the stage last week as people gathered to celebrate this year's Juneteenth observance. Juneteenth marks the day when Union Gen.

Mosaic Why Trump’s attack on Juneteenth sparked calls to cancel other federal holidays Published: Jun. 24, 2025, 12:19 p.m.