This Week In History April 12th    1872  Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky.   1937  Sir Frank Whittle ground-te...

John Wilkes Booth and Edwin Thomas Booth were brothers born to actor Junius Brutus Booth, who was considered one of the great American Sh...

January 1st In.. 1776- General George Washington ordered the Grand Union Flag to be hoisted on a 76 foot tall pole, on a hill in S...

Harold Holzer won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and four other awards in 2015 for his book, Lincoln and the Power of the Press. On Feb...

William Mumler was an American spirit photographer who worked in New York and Boston . Infamous “spirit photographer” William Muml...

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln  She was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. She was the First Lady of th...