Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has introduced a bill to add President Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore. The proposal aims to ...

The Mellon Foundation sees equity as central to the depiction of America. In 2020, the Foundation decided to center its grantmaking initiatives on social justice, with the goal of influencing cultural ...

Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that ...

Check out the latest exhibits and events Central Illinois museums, galleries and historic sites have to offer.

It's been a long time since Abraham Lincoln boys wrestling has had as good a season as they had this year. But they're far ...

Lincoln’s Tavarre Lee (Boys 3A 132) and Bradley Amsden (Boys 3A 285) captured individual state titles, and the Abes grabbed ...

When Abraham Lincoln was about 19 years old, he made his first voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers with a load of produce to sell in New Orleans. In ...

Will quoted President Donald Trump as saying that he does not care “much about anything” other than “peace” when it comes to ...

IT IS NO LESS THAN THIS IDEA OF AMERICA, this creed, this soul of America that we now see and feel slipping away. And yet, ...

The Ontario County Historical Society in Canandaigua has obtained a number of presidential artifacts over the years.

In my office is a beige wicker suitcase with brown leather straps. Inside are 32 handwritten diaries produced by Charlie Tinker during his years working at the White House for ...

The San Diego History Center and the Black Chamber of Commerce are launching their first-ever digital exhibition of San Diego African American History. Wendy McKinney, San Diego History Center ...