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

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

The artist chose to depict the iconic 16th President as he was as a young lawyer working in small towns around Illinois.

In “Abraham Lincoln’s Unchurched Faith” (Houses ... One outcome of this connection was apparent as Lincoln’s speeches and letters during the war increasingly reflected Old School ...

Though the world knows his Gettysburg Address, it was Abraham Lincoln's speech at a new technical ... Soon afterward, during the first Congress under our new constitution, Lincoln reveals: The ...

Related: Abraham Lincoln’s Kalamazoo speech was one ... formative in the development of his anti-slavery rhetoric. During the speech, Lincoln spoke against slavery, suggesting it should be ...

I can see Alton’s Lincoln-Douglas Square from my bookshop window. On Oct. 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen ... I found one that he delivered in Chicago during that contentious year of ...

Two Midlakes middle schoolers delivered powerful renditions of the Gettysburg Address during this year’s local Memorial Day ...

Just in case Abraham Lincoln ever wishes to give an encore performance of that famous speech he delivered in 1863 at ...

Abraham Lincoln ... I should make a speech at every town, I would not get to Washington until some time after the inauguration." According to Alliance Historical Society, Lincoln's layover in ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what ...

Years of erosion and corrosive salt during winter months have damaged ... the possibility of painting a 42-by-25-foot mural of Abraham Lincoln on the side of the newly renovated building.