What's it like to witness the last journey of a murdered president? Lincoln's assassination left Americans shocked and grief-stricken. But it also opened the door for opportunistic criminals.

NEW YORK, NY (Reuters) – History enthusiasts are turning their attention to a remarkable auction set for later this month. On November 22, a collection of historic American presidential artefacts will ...

Smith, a popular Springfield figure who worked with U.S. Sen. Charles Percy and U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood and was executive director of the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition when the Lincoln ...

Long before highways and aircraft, the dead traveled by rail. In the 19th century, overcrowded cities turned to funeral trains to carry coffins and mourners to remote cemeteries, transforming grief ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On Nov. 24, 1963, the body of President John F. Kennedy was moved from the White House to the Capitol.

A new exhibit at San Francisco’s Walt Disney Family Museum aims to chart the beginnings and early evolution of the Anaheim, ...

On Dec. 4, 1850, editor Thomas J. Dryer cranked out the first issue on a hand press inside a crude log cabin at Front and ...

IT takes courage to fly, whether as a pilot (or as a passenger) in a metal coffin, assembled, as the astronaut Alan Shepherd put it, “from hundreds of parts supplied by the lowest bidder”.

OPINION The statue of Gen. George Washington standing majestically in a park in downtown Newark is one of the most unique ...

Legend has it that the tradition began in 1621 in New England, as a harvest feast shared by the Plymouth colonists after the ...

On the 54th anniversary of America's only unsolved skyjacking, cllct's Darren Rovell recounts his quest for one passenger's ticket for that historic flight ...

1863 – United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated ...