Classes have been in session for over a month at districts across the Chicago area, with students and teachers at many of the ...

"Carson Tonight," a celebration of the late Nebraska icon at at the Lied Center for Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, will mark Johnny Carson's 99th birthday.

In Missouri, Columbus Day is a state holiday. It’s not the only holiday which differs from Kansas KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - In the Kansas City area, one half of the state line has several schools and ...

Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture, started the first People's Garden on Feb. 12, 2009, President Abraham Lincoln's 200th ...

Today marks the 90th birthday of Nigeria’s former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, the man who provided ...

Ruthe Mason holds a photo of her late husband James Meagher Mason as she looks at a collection of his great-great-grandfather ...

Civil rights leaders subsequently met in New York and chose the centennial of Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 12, 1909, to form the NAACP. Wednesday's ceremony marked the culmination of a years-long ...

It echoes the sentiments that Lowry shared in Lincoln's birthday post in November, calling her son "the hardest worker," and raving that "he makes me so proud." In addition to Lincoln, Lowry us ...

Opal Lee, the woman who crusaded to make Juneteenth a federally-recognized holiday, has an Indiana connection about which she ...

It became one of four horses he carved for the centennial of President Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1909, the same year the Lincoln penny was minted. As far as anyone knows, it's the only ...