Writing to a lawyer, the founding editor of The New York Times conveyed his vast respect for President Abraham Lincoln.

When Gov. JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker visited the pope in Rome on Nov. 19, they gave the pontiff a gift: a ...

Surveyor Edward Gillette saved a railroad thousands of dollars by rerouting tracks near Donkey Creek in northeast Wyoming, ...

A retelling of James Garfield's assassination and other recent TV programs about history show an interest in saying 'who we ...

On October, 23, 2025, Encounter Books honored Charles R. Kesler with the Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals during ...

Time seems to be going faster than ever, but it’s still important to remember and learn from the past, writes Lynne Agress.

The town officially named Santa Claus is located in the US state of Indiana. Establishment: The settlement, originally named Santa Fe, was established in 1854.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently appeared on a national television program to ridicule the idea that Chicago has a crime problem.

In 2015, a group of Florida scholars, including this writer, began assembling mini-biographies of Florida’s governors. The ...

Publishers will release as many as 1 million books this year, so good luck summarizing that. But if what I read and loved in ...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated ...

Washington used Thanksgiving of 1789 to call on the people to hold their new country together in the face of forces that could pull it apart.