The short and simple annals of the poor -- Young man on his own -- Frontier legislator: his love affairs -- Courtship and marriage -- Lawyer-politician -- The gentleman from Illinois -- Echoes of ...

Part one. His early years -- Earning a living -- His love affairs -- Legislator -- Mary Todd -- Lawyer and politician -- Congressman -- Family matters -- Returning to politics -- Joining the ...

The revision of Donald Trump has taken a mere five years, at least at the revered Smithsonian Institution.

De Vinck writes about mornings and why it is the best time to write, make decisions, or solve the Wordle puzzle.

Black Americans. What began in 1926 has grown into an overall cultural observance of Black History in February ...

In Leo XIV, we have a fellow who is an institutionalist by character and temperament, whose biography suggests he is ...

Reading has been a habit of mine since I was young. I have maintained it since then. I try to reserve the last part of the day, often late at night, for reading. This past year was no exception.

If you grew up in the pre-internet era in a region where inclement weather during the winter months was the norm like I did, in a one TV household like I did, perhaps reading for pleasure became a ...

It is entirely fitting that the US is so splintered on its semiquincentennial. Division, for the lion's share of its history, ...

Selected by David Cannadine, the author of “Queen Elizabeth II: A Concise Biography of an Exceptional Sovereign.” ...

After four bloody years and over 700,000 deaths, the Confederacy surrendered. More than four million enslaved persons were ...

"The mayor of Rome and the mayor of Carthage met in 1985 to sign a peace treaty to end the Punic Wars, 2,131 years after ...