Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural took place in an atmosphere of crisis and foreboding, heightened by the armed troops that patrolled the streets and the Capitol grounds. South Carolina seceded from ...

President Barack Obama used Abraham Lincoln’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bibles at his swearing in ceremony in 2013, two presidents used a chair George Washington sat in at his inaugural and George ...

At its peak, 450 employees worked at the mill, but economic pressures caused the mill to close its doors in 1901.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Illinois survey, 1992. Scheinman, Muriel, "Art Collecting at the University of Illinois: A History and Catalogue," Ph.D. diss, University of Illinois, 1981, pg. 133-138. One of ...

(The Root) — When President Barack Obama takes the oath of office for a second term on Jan. 21, he will use two Bibles: the one used by Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration, which the president ...