My neighbor told me of her mother, who as a young girl working on her family’s farm in Illinois looked up from her work in the field one day to see President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train ...

As a youth, she dreamed of becoming a nurse and would graduate in 1941 from the Lincoln School for ... her biography states. President George W. Bush awarded her the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007.

On a windy day in the late winter of 1861, Abraham Lincoln ... stepped off the train. Sherry, whom Gorrecht identified as a “recognized town character,’’ grasped the ex-president’s hand ...

WASHOUGAL — Doctors said he might live for months, but Genia Stemper’s father lasted just four days after his sudden, shocking diagnosis of stage 4 cancer.

Goodwin House Alexandria hosted a panel on Jan. 30, honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. through the ...

In January 2019, the Amityville School District paid tribute to Nancy Leftenant-Colon, renaming the high school’s media ...

An Abraham Lincoln historian who’s working on a documentary about the Great Emancipator’s Funeral Train will give a talk to ...

AVON LAKE, OH – Funeral services have been set for Jennifer Rose Kasunick, a Hope College student who was blind and tragically died when she was struck by a train while walking her service dog ...

Here's everything to know about the Feb. 17 holiday, including what President's Day celebrates and which stores are open or ...