The Tony-winning play paints Abraham Lincoln's wife as a boozy aspiring actress, but how does history really remember her? While much is known and documented about the early American presidents, ...

The tradition officially began in 1989, but U.S. presidents have been presented with turkeys for decades.

Every year on the fourth Thursday in November people across the U.S. celebrate Thanksgiving? But why on Thursday?

On Market Street in Steubenville, history still looks back at you. The bronze figure of Edwin M. Stanton gazes across the valley he once called home. Born here in 1814, Stanton rose from the banks of ...

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American history has been marked by intense controversies over both slavery and immigration. Abraham Lincoln denounced slavery as a moral evil but upheld the Constitution, insisting on due process for ...