Douglass’ final field-goal attempt hit the floor, bounced as the buzzer sounded and Maddi Stewart and her Lincoln Christian teammates high-tailed it to midcourt. Hugs. Tears. And of course a dog pile.

President Abraham Lincoln's close and sometimes tumultuous friendship with former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass is the subject... Lincoln and Douglass Shared Uncommon Bond MICHEL ...

The Battle of Stones River popped up. The location was Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and it happened over several days at the end of 1862. “Fought during miserable weather that saw bitterly cold rain and ...

Quentin Earl Darrington, left, who portrays Frederick Douglass, and Ivan Hernandez, who plays Abraham Lincoln, of the musical "3 Summers of Lincoln," making its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse.

DALLAS (Reuters Life!) - A new "double biography" of two 19th century American icons has a special resonance this political season with the election of Barack Obama. "Giants: The Parallel lives of ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin, the famous historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, has said that only Jesus has been written about more than our 16th president over the past 165 years. As a result, ...

I'm Michel Martin, and this is Tell Me More from NPR News. Coming up on this President's Day, a new study out of Michigan showed that African-American children in troubled homes were far more likely ...