A former Cincinnati councilman convicted in a bribery scheme similar to the one implicating four Jackson and Hinds County ...

A collection of Confederate generals, including Jefferson Davis, composed by the United States between 1861 and 1865, who ...

It's been one year since Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a felony. Now that he's back in ...

Saturday's political cartoons include how much to pay for a pardon, medical advice from a brain worm, and a simple solution ...

The Sittenfeld case is now finally put to rest, no matter if you feel justice was denied or his indictment should never have ...

I often wonder what meal was served to Abraham Lincoln and his entourage at the David Wills House in Gettysburg, on the evening of Nov. 18, 1863, the night before ...

A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

On May 26, 1954, more than 100 crewmembers of the aircraft carrier USS Bennington died in an explosion off Rhode Island.

Lincoln had granted clemency to a turkey named Jack belonging to his ... "He's granted a presidential pardon as of right now." On Monday, President Biden issued the final two turkey pardons ...

However, the history of exactly when the pardon began "gets tricky ... Bush national archives, former President Lincoln spared the life of the Thanksgiving turkey upon request from his son ...

Lincoln's 1863 clemency to the turkey, recorded in an 1865 dispatch ... George H.W. Bush offered the first official presidential pardon. "Let me assure you, and this fine tom turkey, that he ...

Here's what you need to know about the tradition: It is believed Abraham Lincoln was the first president to pardon a turkey in 1863. Lincoln's son Tad allegedly became attached to the turkey ...