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While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual number of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in April. Eerie coincidence?
President Abraham Lincoln's connection to the Erie Canal will be the subject of a talk Monday, April 21, in Weedsport.
It marks that day President Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in the District.
Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York history.
They likely aren’t the words distinguished orators like Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama might have chosen to ...
In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...
Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.
On April 15, 2019, a devastating fire collapsed the roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral, but fire officials said they ...
“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.
A 46-year-old woman is dead after being stabbed in South Omaha Wednesday night. Shortly before 9 p.m., Omaha police officers went to Seventh and Bancroft Streets. They found the woman on a ...
The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.
Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village, ...