A Pekin woman who gained her freedom from indentured servitude with the help of Abraham Lincoln more than two decades before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation as president is the subject of a ...

The friendship that developed, during perhaps the most turbulent time in American History, between two apparently dissimilar ...

Historians and history buffs will appreciate the way that Mary Todd Lincoln (Carmen Cusack) is humanized. Rather than the shrill hysterical woman that is usually portrayed, writer Joe DiPietro ...

Since 1998, the City of Alexandria has celebrated March as Women’s History Month. The City of Alexandria offers its annual ...

It was a starry affair at Oh, Mary! The hit Broadway musical welcomed Meryl Streep, Martin Short, Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein in the audience on Saturday, March 8. Lopez, 55, and Goldstein ...

Good graphic design can be timeless, but there are inevitably design trends that come and go – or come and stay well beyond ...

The first line of Shel Silverstein ’s poem, “Where the Sidewalk Ends” is, “There is a place where the sidewalk ends and ...

The southern widow's Maryland house was a crucial stop on the escape route for assassin John Wilkes Booth the night he shot the president. Read more about Abraham ...

Mary Joyce of North Salem passed into God’s loving care on March 6, 2025 following a long illness. She was a past resident of Chappaqua and Fishkill. Following graduation from Chappaqua schools ...

The body taken away “of which there is no trace” was that of Mary Masters Allen Livingston, youngest daughter of Allentown’s James Allen and wife of General Henry W. Livingston ...

Leica paid homage to International Women's Day on Saturday by announcing the winners of the Leica Women Foto Project. Now in ...