Nickname: Land of Lincoln Date Ratified: December 3, 1818 (21st) Capital: Springfield [caption id="attachment_1994" align="aligncenter" width="210" caption="Map of Illinois"] [/caption] Nearly 65% of Illinois' population lives in the northeastern corner of the state...
Nickname: The Cornhusker State Date Ratified: March 1, 1867 (37th) Capital: Lincoln [caption id="attachment_1853" align="aligncenter" width="210" caption="Map of Nebraska"] [/caption] The first Arbor Day holiday was observed in Nebraska in 1872. To this day, the headquarters...
Nickname: Bluegrass State Date Ratified: June 1, 1792 (15th) Capital: Frankfort [caption id="attachment_1814" align="aligncenter" width="210" caption="Map of Kentucky"] [/caption] Berea College, established in 1855, was the first coed college in the South to admit...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="144" caption="Image via Wikipedia"] [/caption] Twitter may be a 21st century invention, but that's not going to stop John Quincy Adams, the nation's 6th president, from joining in on the fun. Thanks to the Massachusetts Historical...
[caption id="attachment_1200" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Trucks along the Lincoln Highway in Nebraska"] [/caption]Despite entering World War I nearly 3 years late, the United States was heralded as the savior of Europe. Fresh-faced doughboys arriving with...
Income Tax History [caption id="attachment_1056" align="alignright" width="173" caption="Abraham Lincoln: Father of the Income Tax (sort of)"] [/caption] Did you know that the Federal Income Tax was first signed into law by Abraham Lincoln as the Revenue Act of 1861...
In honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the folks at Newmarket Press are about to release The Words of Abraham Lincoln, a collection of speeches and private correspondence from none other than George Washington Abraham Lincoln. Today also just...
