The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln ...

This replica was built by the Smithsonian in 1978 for long-term display to preserve the fragile original. NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham Lincoln, many images may come to mind: rail-splitter ...

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...

The “Lincoln’s Legacy” collection up for auction features 144 items chronicling Lincoln’s personal and political life, from manuscripts and artifacts from his time as a lawyer in Illinois to his ...

Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln ... adding his name to the list of Republican presidential contenders two years hence. Lincoln was not as well known ...

S time passes the historic Lincoln ... 1860 and that Abraham Lincoln would be nominated for Vice President. Lincoln, in his debates with Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, gained the first recognition ...