Michael E. Ruane

Lincoln’s mail included advice, warnings, pleas, and death sentences. Thousands of the transcriptions are now on line, as Library of Congress concludes its massive “Letters to Lincoln” project.

Bound for destiny and Hiroshima, the Enola Gay carried 12 men, hope, and the power for epic destruction. The silver airplane, named for the pilot’s mother, barely got off the ground that morning with the world’s first atomic bomb.

After a decade’s absence, a new canal boat is taking shape for Georgetown’s hallowed waterway. For the C&O canal, the new boat, pulled by mules, is being built in Maryland.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, welcomed visitors back to the National Zoo on July 24.

A 240-year-old tree at Mount Vernon that fell last November gets cannon fire and solemn honors before facing the sawmill.

Edwin C. Roessler Jr. was scratched at Grace Covenant Church, where he is a member. Two others were stabbed.

Newly digitized payroll receipts at the National Archives show that the enslaved were forced to tend mounds of excrement to extract saltpeter for gunpowder, aiding the Confederate fight to keep them in bondage.

Many fireworks companies have been slammed by cancellations as the holiday approaches

The festivities will include flyovers and fireworks.