Closed since last summer, museum reopens Saturday at Harvey House with new owner and hoopla, columnist David Allen writes.

Just as the spring tourist season is getting started, a major rockslide has closed one of the primary routes into Yosemite ...

It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about ...

On the wintry morning of March 11, 1854, Milwaukee abolitionist newspaper editor Sherman Booth received an urgent telegram ...

Are you ready for your next Vermont road trip? A drive featuring far-reaching pastoral views, historic New England towns, and ...

Now one of “The World’s 100 Most Important Places,” according to Time Magazine, it’s open for tours and nightly stargazing.

The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...

Those walking by the south-facing entrance of the West Virginia State Capitol may notice a bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...

The most potent lesson in Vorenberg’s “Lincoln’s Peace” is to carefully consider all the issues at stake in planning what to do after the fighting stops. Abraham Lincoln wanted to “let ...