On July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, Adams and Jefferson both died. While today is celebrated as Independence Day in America, key figures Adams and ...

From “White House Down” to “Heads of State” to “Independence Day,” the movie presidents we’d most want to see in charge. Now ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...

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America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

Bettmann/Getty Images November 22, 1963, really ate me up. A month after the assassination  — and I first revealed this in my 2022 book, My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy — I tried to drown myself in ...

36. Dallas businessman Abraham Zapruder caught the assassination on his 8 mm home movie camera. 37. His secretary had urged him to go home and get it for the presidential parade. 38. Zapruder’s film ...

Lot 62 is a sepia-colored carte de visite of Lincoln, boldly signed by him as “A. Lincoln” and PSA/DNA slabbed and graded ...

Dorothy McClerren, 96, portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in her daughter’s home to share her talents with Heartland Hospice workers ...

In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Campbell’s focus is far from skirmishes but rather ...