Public events started in 1975, but the NAACP marked it a decade earlier Pacoima was the first place the city celebrated Juneteenth in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles…
Read more When Was the First Juneteenth Celebration in Los Angeles? – LAmagTwo turkeys are traveling Tuesday from the posh Willard Hotel to the White House, becoming the latest turkeys to be pardoned by an American president in a tradition…
Read more The White House’s history with Thanksgiving, and how the turkey pardon came to beNEW YORK (AP) — The United States is running out of pennies. President Donald Trump’s decision to stop producing the penny earlier this year is starting to have…
Read more Banks and retailers run short on pennies as the US Mint stops making themFourteen presidents have called themselves Freemasons, members of the centuries-old fraternal organization known for its secret rituals and mysterious symbols. Abraham Lincoln was not one of them, but…
Read more This mold of Abraham Lincoln’s face is one of many treasures in the mysterious Masonic TempleDozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new statue of President Abraham Lincoln outside the African American Civil War Museum in Northwest D.C. Statue of Abraham…
Read more Abraham Lincoln statue unveiled outside African American Civil War Museum – WTOP NewsThe newest presidential statue in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood is unlike most depictions of Lincoln in marble or on canvas, because he is actually doing something. This page contains…
Read more Move over National Mall, DC’s Shaw neighborhood now has a Lincoln statue of its own – WTOP NewsLincoln made a solemn vow for a peaceful transfer of power | 60 Minutes – CBS News Watch CBS News On Election Day 160 years ago, the Civil…
Read more Lincoln made a solemn vow for a peaceful transfer of power | 60 MinutesIn 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman captured Savannah, Georgia, and presented it as a Christmas gift to President Abraham Lincoln. This marked a pivotal moment in the war…
Read more WTF Fun Fact 13722 – Savannah, Georgia – Lincoln’s GiftThe White House has witnessed countless events, but few are as intriguing as the séances conducted by Mary Todd Lincoln. These sessions, aimed at contacting the dead, highlight…
Read more WTF Fun Fact 13721 – White House SeancesWTOP’s Mike Murillo reports from Freedom Plaza during the D.C. Emancipation Day celebration. Tuesday will mark 162 years since the D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 freed thousands…
Read more PHOTOS: DC Emancipation Day celebration – WTOP NewsClaude Monet, Pommiers en Fleurs, 1872. Courtesy Union League Club of Chicago The Union League Club of Chicago is selling a rare claude monet painting that has been…
Read more The Union League Club of Chicago Is Selling Its Treasured Monet“We are in this to win it,” No Labels’ chief strategist, Ryan Clancy, told me one morning earlier this month. Clancy and 16 other representatives of the beleaguered…
Read more A Wild and Dangerous 2024 ExperimentThree words told the story. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign had billed this afternoon’s event in Philadelphia as a “much-anticipated announcement.” Of course, that specific phrase may have…
Read more Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Promises to Spoil the ElectionA pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865—the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth—sold at auction for $262,500. What…
Read more Ford’s Theatre Tickets For Night Of Lincoln’s Murder Sell At Auction For $262,500Violence and crime have been part of American history since the earliest explorers arrived on the continent and killed whoever they found before stealing their land. The Onion…
Read more Most Notorious Criminals In U.S. HistoryFormer President Donald Trump made a claim on Wednesday that was wild by even his lofty standards. He said he would’ve not only defeated an undead George Washington…
Read more Trump’s New Claim About Washington And Lincoln Sets Twitter Ablaze
