A massive trove of Abraham Lincoln’s historical writings, keepsakes and personal effects is heading to the auction block in ...

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

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of his ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham ...

The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Long-neglected maintenance has led to major problems in New ...

It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

part of the reconstructed village of New Salem where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837, March 10, 2025, in Petersburg, Ill. (AP Photo/John O'Connor) ...

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 ...

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...

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

The two greatest presidents died in April, 80 years apart, one 80 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, 56, was slain while enjoying a comedy at Ford’s Theatre. After 12 years of a crisis presidency, Franklin ...