President Donald Trump couldn’t help but favorably compare himself to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in a rambling ...

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 ...

Many local residents have heard something about Abraham Lincoln’s so-called “Lost Speech,” delivered in downtown Bloomington on May 29, 1856. Yet most folks don’t know the story about the time when ...

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago. Many describe contemporary America in the same terms. We’re a house divided ...

Sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy decided not to go to Gettysburg — instead embarking on what turned out to be a fateful trip to Texas. History might have been different had he attended the ...

The program, which will be live-streamed at 7 p.m. on Looking for Lincoln's YouTube channel and Facebook page, will look at the speech Lincoln gave during a convention in Bloomington, how it came to ...

From our first days as a nation, we have put our faith in free markets and free enterprise as the engine of America’s wealth and prosperity. More than citizens of any other country, we are rugged ...

Before Barack Obama strode onto the stage at Cooper Union’s Great Hall this morning reporters in the rear were giving their over-under estimates on how many times Obie would invoke Abraham Lincoln ...

A theatrical foray into President Abraham Lincoln's state of mind on the eve of delivering the Gettysburg Address will be featured at the Northwest Montana History Museum on Sunday, Feb. 25. Minnesota ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...