Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

An Abraham Lincoln historian who’s working on a documentary about the Great Emancipator’s Funeral Train will give a talk to ...

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forev­er before being found in a warehouse on New York’s Long Island. Dan Martin, a summer intern at Historic Films Archive in Greenport ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) invites the public to remember President Lincoln’s birthday this month with free events at state historic sites around Illinois including Vandalia.

With February underway, Presidents’ Day will soon be observed as the country’s next federal holiday on the third Monday of ...

It’s a slip, not a fall,” Abraham Lincoln said after his loss in his legendary 1858 Illinois Senate contest against Stephen Douglas. Liz Cheney apparently has the same attitude after her ...

A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forever before being found in a warehouse on New York's Long ...

After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 ... According to census records, the number of slaves in America went from 894,452 in 1800 to 3,953,587 in 1860. During that same period, the per ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

If any woman was ever born to be the first lady of the United States, it was Kate. Glitteringly beautiful and dazzlingly ...

In a quarter-century legal career, Abraham Lincoln accepted all types of casework, ranging from real estate to murder — and ...