Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the ...

Nathan Koble is personally designing and financing a historical marker to be erected in Lake City this summer.

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the ...

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

Two of Illinois' best museums are in Springfield, according to a site that ranks the best such places in the Prairie State.

Wayne C. "Doc" Temple, the indefatigable Abraham Lincoln scholar who wrote more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and ...

An auction of materials relating to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, upcoming at Freeman's | Hindman, may bring as much as $4 ...

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 ...

(AP) — 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 ...