Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...

Their decision is expected over the next couple of weeks, before the end of the month.

It’s a question that has plagued historians and journalists for decades. Now, the perpetual debate has reared its head once ...

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, ...

Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...

History is a bad place, often. To get an idea just how bad, let’s return to Reagan’s biography. Those of more tender ...

Works by Black artists on how labor influenced Black history and culture, curated by Faith Evans; reception 3-5 p.m. Feb. 16; ...

I was amazed how a discussion of the simple coffee and “meet-ups” strikes such a chord today and does so across multiple areas of study.

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...