While working on a Lincoln project, I came across renewed research about Lincoln’s bout with “a mild form of smallpox,” while here in Gettysburg. For this column, I draw upon ...

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Traveling to Lincoln from Boston, Higginbotham said her grandfather, the Rev. Walter Henderson Brooks, was born a slave in 1851. He “worked” for a tobacco company in Richmond, Virginia.

I have lived in Washington DC for years and still can’t get enough of it. On sunny Saturday morning walks, my pace is casual, ...

President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, his supporters spread across D.C., even as the inauguration ceremony ...

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln ...