Juneteenth observance arrives amid US reckoning with racism

Getting Lost with Hand Drawn Maps

Oh Lincoln, My Lincoln

American Icons: The Lincoln Memorial

After Lincoln’s assassination, no one wanted to see the play he was watching — until now

That ‘American’ apple pie actually goes back to Europe in the Middle Ages

A German town turns a neo-Nazi march into an anti-hate walkathon

Why does America have a ‘special’ relationship with Liberia?

How wars end part II: the American Civil War

Meet the one man still making those little Statue of Liberty replicas

The history of electronic surveillance, from Abraham Lincoln’s wiretaps to Operation Shamrock

New Digital Public Library of America seeks to increase accessibility to treasured works

New South made possible with the help of air conditioning

New summer movie imagines a Civil War — with vampires

Texas senator proposes national Juneteenth holiday to celebrate the end of slavery

VIDEO: Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi announces he’s willing to resign

Bill O’Reilly’s take on the Lincoln assassination

The big life of the small Mrs. Tom Thumb

Debating Lincoln

Obama and the arts

July 4th: An Indian-American Shares his Thoughts

London’s Highgate Cemetery: Why the Grave of President Lincoln’s Chiropodist has Become a Tourist Destination

Young Abraham Lincoln

President Obama’s Civil Rights Report Card

Slaves Freed 150 Years Ago Today

The Circuitous Journey of the Domesticated Turkey

For the Love of Lincoln

Should the Electoral College Be Abolished?

Kate Doyle: Documenting Latin America’s Painful Past

Can We Survive Without the Penny?

A Historical Tour of the Thanksgiving Table

Bill O’Reilly on Lincoln, Obama, and the GOP candidates

The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Tom Thumb

Collecting Seeds From Historical Trees

A Picnic for the Ages

American Values: Freedom

Churchillian advice for President Obama

Thirty years after the eradication of smallpox

Obama fires McChrystal: a Truman-MacArthur dismissal or a Lincoln-Hooker moment?

Happy 200th Birthday, Darwin and Lincoln

President Obama’s place in history

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