There are disasters you remember because they are too big, too loud, too public to forget. Then there are the ones that ...

Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in history, played at W.J. Reeder & Son's shoe repair shop in Upper Alton as a child.

In our previous history article we explained how it happened that three Nevada County pioneers were among the final people to talk to Abraham Lincoln before the president and first ...

Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

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John Reid, Republican nominee for Virginia lieutenant governor, claims he received threats two weeks ago demanding he drop ...

For Jimmy Sabatino announcing that Vesuvio’s Restaurant will close for good on Saturday was harder than squeezing into a ...

The white-leather gloves are stained with blood from the night the slain president wore them to the theater.

Here's why a bunch of Abraham Lincoln impersonators from across the country will be in Kalamazoo this weekend.

Karen Stone of Fredericksburg has written a book about the Black Diamond disaster, a forgotten tragedy on the Potomac River ...

Both had been born in Allentown and are now deceased. As we talked, one name came up frequently: turn-of-the-century filmmaker and Wilkes-Barre born Lyman H. Howe (1856-1923). Each recalled as ...

John Wilkes Booth's father – developed a love for Texas after getting to know Sam Houston personally from his early days as a ...