Our first history program of the year will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m., at the Vernon County History Center in ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a renowned humanitarian, died at 100 years old on Dec. 29, 2024.

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

America is remembering former President Jimmy Carter ahead of Thursday’s funeral service at the National Cathedral in Washington and his burial back home in Georgia. Presidential funerals have a ...

The tradition, however, was largely altered back in 1865 during the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln. “It was the first time that the President's body was moved by train," Michael Shymanski ...

A procession that begins at the president’s home makes its way to the US Capitol to have the coffin placed on the same platform used since it held Abraham Lincoln’s, then a state funeral at ...

“The funeral can be a way to connect someone with the past,” Kondik said. “After (President John F. Kennedy) was assassinated, Jackie Kennedy wanted the White House to look the way it had when Abraham ...

To see these men of history shoulder to shoulder in cathedral pews shows that they’re human like all of us, and on this day of mourning, they dressed up for a funeral and said farewell to a ...

And on this day of mourning, in a display of unity and continuity, they dressed up for a funeral and said farewell to a touchstone ... It reinforces the notion that Abraham Lincoln spoke of so many ...