Alton’s first baseball action was in 1858 ...

DURING America’s civil war, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln reportedly began sharing a bed with his bodyguard, a soldier named David Derickson. The tittle-tattle was recorded in the diary of Virginia ...

Back at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, a son observed the 15th anniversary of his father’s passing. He admired the geometric precision of thousands of headstones that marked graves.