In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

There's always what we say, and what we mean, and a gap between the two; what we mean to do, and what we really do, and a gap ...

Christopher Meloni, the legendary "Law & Order: SVU" star, is saddened by the passing of a show icon. Ted Kotcheff, a Canadian-Bulgarian filmmaker who worked on the hit NBC show for more than 10 years ...

A poem, "Sheridan's Ride," was written by a minor painter and versifier named Thomas Buchanan Read ... "Your genius has put us into the same boat for a long journey, and we must try and take ...

New York is one of the world’s most visited states, and New York City is widely described as the modern-day centre of the ...

1865: Otto von Bismarck is elevated to the rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen. On the same day, US President Abraham Lincoln dies nine hours after being shot while ttending the play “Our American ...

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's ...

Calling it an extension of a military base, critics say, skirts federal law. U.S. Army soldiers will soon be patrolling a 170-mile buffer zone along the southern border with Mexico in a newly ...

Oracle has won two US federal contracts. The cloud computing provider has seen the US Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA) expand its use of OCI, and has been selected by the US Department ...

A long sliver of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part of a base, which could ...

“This is about global deterrence,” said Gen. Christoper Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa. “Everything we demonstrate we can do with our Allies and partners we can ...