A delicate maneuver has ensured Libertyville’s tie to an influential grass-roots movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln ...

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln (and the Republican Party) stood as the only viable alternative to the moral indifference of Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” and the pro-slavery ...

Author or editor of 36 books, many on Lincoln, and chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation This age-old question assumes a chain of events with a big missing link: disunion. Abraham ...

Preface -- Republican storm rising? -- Democrats' trials and tribulations -- Democrats' nominations : Act I -- The third way -- Republicans choose an "available" man -- Democrats' nominations : Act II ...

THE POLITICAL turmoil that erupted over Franklin Pierce’s anti-slavery comments spoken at a Democratic Party gathering in New Boston in January, 1852, faded as soon as he won the presidential election ...

In the election of 1860, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, Illinois attorney, was elected to the presidency of the 33 states of the United States of America. Before being even inaugurated on ...

"This work utilizes newspaper accounts from across America, journals and diaries of his contemporaries, and correspondence. Lincoln's speeches also appear here as they did in newspapers in 1860 and ...

The intersection of Lake Street and Wacker Drive is well known for several reasons. For the confluence of the Chicago River branches. For the hazards of the tricky pedestrian crossings. For the cold ...

BLOOMINGTON — On Nov. 21, 1860, president-elect Abraham Lincoln made his last appearance in Bloomington, a city that meant much to his legal and political career. Since the late 1830s, Lincoln had ...

“Abe Lincoln in Illinois” is a 1938 play that is essentially a pre-presidency biography of Abraham Lincoln. It is, amazingly, enlightening to contemporary audiences. When the play first appeared in ...