On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger declared at Galveston, Texas, that "all slaves are free" by virtue of Lincoln's edict dated Jan. 1, 1863. It took more than two years to make the promise of ...

Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more ...

Mark Updegrove outlines examples, some little-known, from across the legacies of past commanders-in-chief he's interviewed.

In the summer, you can read books in a hammock, you can read them by the sea, you can read them on your porch, you can read ...

The likeness between the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and his 11th-generation descendant Ralph C.

Officials are asking Nebraskans to donate a popular, discontinued wax to protect the statue of Abraham Lincoln on the west side of the Capitol. The cast-bronze statue of the former president is ...

Although the school board races, like Lincoln Airport Authority and Lincoln City Council, are officially nonpartisan and no party labels appear on the ballot, parties support and campaign for ...

The Kiwanis Club of Clarion recently held its annual scholarship awards dinner. Each year the Club awards two scholarships to ...

As schools across northwest Pennsylvania begin to let out for summer vacation, thousands of children who rely on school meals will lose access to the consistent nutrition provided ...