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Juneteenth falls on a Wednesday this year. Do feds get the day off?
Federal Times· 23 hours agoOn June 19, 1865, troops came to Galveston two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln...
Fact Check: Lincoln Supposedly Said, 'It's Not the Years in Your Life that Count; It's the Life in...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSuch is the case with this quote, which is often attributed to the 16th President of the United...
Five Council Bluffs students to attend national history contest
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 1 hour agoCouncil Bluffs sure has some outstanding history students. In fact, five of them will soon travel to...
Abraham Lincoln warned of what happened to Donald Trump.
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoTrump's conviction proves America's sharp left turn Barack Obama's transformation of America is now...
When is Juneteenth observed in 2024? Is there mail delivery? All about the federal holiday
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoOn what date was the Emancipation Proclamation issued? President Abraham Lincoln issued the...
Revisiting the Golden Age of Department Stores — Donald Trump, “Mad Men” and Abraham Lincoln Are...
People via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA shopaholic, she spent the equivalent of $500,000 in today’s money in a single summer, a tab her...
Why is MGT screaming at Dr. Fauci? Can we ever debate with civility again? | Mike Kelly
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoAnyone who doubts this should peek at the news coverage of President Abraham Lincoln in the 1860s...
Why India and Pakistan’s T20 cricket showdown in New York is such a big deal
The Conversation via Yahoo Sports· 1 day agoAmericans might be surprised to learn that cricket – not baseball, nor football – holds the title of...
Portland monuments: Are the statues of presidents coming back?
KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland· 6 days agoDuring the summer and into fall of 2020, Portland statues fell like leaves. Spurred by racial...
Clarence Page: Evanston’s reparations program, meant to attack discrimination, is accused of being...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 days agoNews that a conservative nonprofit legal group is challenging Evanston’s groundbreaking reparations program got me thinking about the many attempts to redress the wrongs of systemic racism through ...