The foundation that supports the library is struggling to pay off a 2007 loan. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum may lose a few of the famed president's key artifacts -- such as a ...

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013 file photo, a marker is seen over the burial site of Abraham Lincoln inside Lincoln s tomb within Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Ill. The Lincoln Monument ...

Black silk cloth used to drape over Lincoln’s coffin while his body lay in state in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 25, 1865. The same cloth later covered the coffin of President James A. Garfield, who in ...

In our era, they might seem like performative gestures for the president. A quiet visit with the wife of a wounded soldier. A conversation with a battlefield nurse or a kitchen worker. A hand extended ...

World-renowned Abraham Lincoln scholars, including Michael Burlingame, will speak at a symposium at Cantigny Park on Saturday, June 21. Organized by the Abraham Lincoln Association, each speaker will ...

What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago, on Thursday May 29, 1856, ignited Abraham Lincoln’s march to the presidency, and eventually led to the Civil War-era 13th, 14th and 15 amendments, which ...

Lincoln needed about 270 words for one of the most sacred texts in U.S. history. Nov. 19. 2013— -- Of the five known copies of the "Gettysburg Address" in Abraham Lincoln's handwriting (all a ...