The idea for the museum first emerged in the 1960s, says Litterst—the brainchild of a Republican Congressman from Iowa, Fred Schwengel, who thought the undercroft could be dedicated to the life of ...

I'm Fred Martino, at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois. As you enter the museum in this grand plaza, you see entrances to various permanent exhibits ...

This list isn’t just a snooze-worthy textbook version of Lincoln’s life. Nope! These are real places I’ve visited—some epic, ...

Stories from the 1800s are still being told in Our Town Mount Pleasant. “We could put it all in context and be storytellers ...

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The collection’s original owner is “appalled.” ...

According to the Looking for Lincoln website, visitors can explore Lincoln sites in Bloomington-Normal by using the McLean County Museum of History narrated tour. This is available on the Museum ...

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 ...

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The collection’s original owner is “appalled.” ...