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An exchange of well-wishes between a first-year president and the world's oldest republic is the latest find of the Springfield-based Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a foundational research arm of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

When you watch, or rewatch, the smash hit "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," keep an eye out for the dancer shoved aside by the garish Effie Trinket .

Does the sci-fi spectacular "Gravity'' have sufficient gravitas to win this year's Best Picture Oscar? Not so long ago, I would have said "no way'' and told you to put your money on the heavyweight biopic "12 Years a Slave'' instead.

Every year, 30 million people visit the Smithsonian, but few get an insider's look at the world's largest museum and research complex.

A painting showing former South African President Nelson Mandela, center, surround by Martin Luther King, left, Mohandas Gandhi, 2nd left, John F. Kennedy, 3rd left, Abraham Lincoln, 3rd from right, Winston Churchill, 2nd right, and Barack Obama, right, is fixed on top the flowers outside Mandela's house in Johannesburg, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013.

Last week, five days after Black Friday's Walmart strike and the day before a nationwide fast food workers strike , President Obama delivered a speech at the Center for American Progress about economic disparity and low wages.

Unbowed by Politico labeling her with this epithet a couple of weeks ago, Michelle Obama continues to do what her critics regard as frightening behaviors.

Tammy Altepeter of St. Louis held the hand of her 10-year-old son as they toured the Bryant Cottage State Historic Site recently.

Author Andrew Polsky talked about the wartime decisions of several U.S. Presidents, from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama.All U.S. presidents, regardless of their background, serve as commanders-in-chief of the ..

It is most certainly the most stressful job in the free world, but never has an American president been as self absorbed and narcissistic as President Barack Obama.

We are hearing a multitude of broadcasts, blogs, and stories about Mandela. Hosts fill their alloted time with stories of Mandela, and cannot help but slip into comparisons with modern politicians.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESSBraxton Bragg resigned after losing Chattanooga to the Union army.

The aftershocks of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. in 2001 linger to this day, well beyond the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Stockton Black Leadership Council announces its 10th Annual Emancipation Proclamation Celebration on January 1st to celebrate 151 years of freedom from slavery in America.

Dec. 07--When you watch, or rewatch, the smash hit "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," keep an eye out for the dancer shoved aside by the garish Effie Trinket .

Profiles in History run by Joe Maddalena is proud to announce The Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector Part lll.

"O Come, All Ye Faithful", "Rise Up Shepherd and Follow", Get Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen", "O Christmas Tree", and get this, "Maryland, My Maryland".

When I was coming of age in the late 1970s, as an African-American high-schooler and college student, I had two certainties: Nelson Mandela would die in prison in apartheid South Africa and no black person would become U.S. president in my lifetime.

Unbowed by Politico labeling her with this epithet a couple of weeks ago, Michelle Obama continues to do what her critics regard as frightening behaviors.