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

After her release, Mary Todd Lincoln lived a relatively quiet life, although she remained plagued by both psychiatric and ...

Following the Civil War and the assassination of the president, Douglas penned a letter that was republished in newspapers of ...

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

Despite being president for only four years—from March 1861 to April 1865—Abraham ... the Emancipation Proclamation that freed enslaved people across the U.S., President Lincoln inspired ...

President Abraham Lincoln ... That was the issue of slavery and emancipation. During the war's first year, one of Lincoln's top priorities was to keep border state Unionists and Northern ...

American history buffs will soon be able to bid on a set of 140 rare artifacts that formerly belonged to President Abraham Lincoln ... single cuff button with the letter “L” that the president ...

“The surviving evidence — the number of letters between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, for example — can also be read by the absence of evidence,” Balcerski said. “Being able to also ...

"I am the most miserable man alive," the future president wrote after his friend (and alleged lover) Joshua Speed moved away, in the documentary 'Lover Of Men' Abraham Lincoln was, by most ...

Today marks the 160th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln ... by the American people of Lincoln’s stance in saving the Union at any cost and his emancipation of the slaves.

In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham ... forever, Lincoln hoped. The country would be stuck with the Africans forever, but it should not follow that emancipation ...