The Broad Street museum about Freemasons brings to light the fraternal organization that counts many presidents as members.

A simple stick from a bloody battlefield will be auctioned next week. Lincoln's Gettysburg cane will attactt huge interest as ...

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The internet is full of claims about words famous figures spoke or wrote on their deathbeds — not all of them accurate. Evon, Dan. "Was a Mars Rover's Final Message to NASA 'My Battery Is Low and It's ...

A cause of death has not yet been revealed. Her death was announced by her company, Actors Audition Studios, via Facebook. “Over her 45-year career, Lar left an unforgettable mark on Hollywood through ...

It was Good Friday, April 14, 1865, and Abraham Lincoln was in an unusual mood: Happy. Giddy. He was a man freed of the heaviest burden any U.S. president had ever been forced to bear. The mighty ...

Any home dating back to the early 1900s usually comes with a wealth of history attached to it, and this storied Georgian Revival townhouse in New York’s Murray Hill District that just hit the market ...

As reflected by its declining ratings in its later seasons, most "The Walking Dead" viewers can pinpoint the moment where they gave up on the show. For many, it's ...

The Civil War was really the watershed,” he wrote Meyer. “Lincoln was America’s first dictator, and almost all the Republican ...

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. MORE BREAKING NEWS LINCOLN POLICE ARREST A FATHER IN THE DEATH OF HIS FOUR MONTH OLD DAUGHTER. 36 YEAR-OLD RYAN GREENWOOD FACES A CHARGE OF CHILD ABUSE RESULTING IN DEATH.

Abraham Lincoln’s vision of uniting the country by rail came to fruition a handful of years after his death. Now, Union ...

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