AVOCA — America’s 16th president is known for many historic events during his lifetime, including the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, and his assassination in 1865. Even in death, ...

On a rainy Tuesday morning, I stood under Abraham Lincoln for the first time. “Those reinforced concrete beams are actually where Abe is sitting right now,” said Sam Meyerhoff, a senior project ...

A massive trove of Abraham Lincoln’s historical writings, keepsakes and personal effects is heading to the auction block in May. Ranging from boyhood scrawlings to the gloves he wore on the night of ...

On a February afternoon in 1864, Abraham Lincoln stood outside the White House, waiting impatiently for the presidential carriage he had summoned for a trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to Mathew Brady’s ...

Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln were on the auction block Wednesday, separated from a collection that was intended to be available for public display forever but wound up ...

People from all over the Chicago area took time out this Memorial Day to honor fallen service members. At Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery near Elwood, Illinois southwest of Chicago, there was pomp, ...

Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew bitter ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village, ...

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 ...