The coffin of former President Jimmy Carter was transported on a horse-drawn caisson to the Capitol Rotunda, where Vice ...

Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting on Tuesday.

In 1890, the first Tournament of Roses parade took place in Pasadena, Calif. In 1892, Ellis Island opened in New York Harbor.

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., is an open-air memorial featuring the prominent, solitary figure of Abraham Lincoln ... who had come to the United States with their father, well-known ...

A presidential funeral in the United States is a carefully orchestrated event, blending solemn traditions and heartfelt tributes.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter's memorial journey will end at his ... Pennsylvania Avenue on the same caisson that carried Abraham Lincoln after he was assassinated a century earlier, and ...

The St. Helena High wrestling team is about 18 strong, including three girls and two boys who are looking to return to the ...

Jimmy Carter arrived in Washington for the last time Tuesday. A series of events is honoring the former president following ...

There are 75,000 U.S. streets named for Lincoln, but the first known was in Bloomington, which honored the beloved local ...

Central to his design was a plan to lower the plaza and the pool, to protect the existing view between the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial ... for the U.S. states and territories during ...

whose death in the 1950s was a catalyst for the civil rights movement in the United States. It’s part of the “Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt” exhibition at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential ...