FORT KENT, Maine – Almost 100 years ago today, a group of northern Mainers founded the Fort Kent Historical Society, which at ...

Amid this wild miscellany the old plow that John Deere made in his blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, Illinois, back in 1838 stood out like Abraham Lincoln ... in ordinary speech nowadays, and ...

Among the Black figures who changed history in America, Frederick Douglass emerged as a beacon of defiance and intellect. It’s […] ...

A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, which led to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, slicing travel time across the continent ...

EMDEN -- It may not be his best-known composition, but a little-known speech Abraham Lincoln delivered in 1858 in Bloomington seemed apt to the developers of a wind farm named in his honor and ...

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

“I cannot think of another president, apart from Abraham Lincoln, who faced a civil war from the moment he was sworn into office, who has had a more consequential, inspiring, and important first ...