The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

President Donald Trump has alluded to arcane legal arguments in repeatedly suggesting he could seek a third term. Besides ...

The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from ...

While we can’t definitively say Abraham Lincoln was gay, we’re pretty certain he shared his bed with men on multiple ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

In August, Austin, the son of David and Elizabeth Ingall of Temperance, learned he was one of just 10 U.S. students selected for the annual Youth Leadership Team by the American Battlefield Trust.

Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying ... after the fighting stops. Abraham Lincoln wanted to ...