Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...

Before he became the president that carried America through the Civil War and emancipated the nation's slaves, Abraham ...

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...

It’s a question that has plagued historians and journalists for decades. Now, the perpetual debate has reared its head once ...

Their decision is expected over the next couple of weeks, before the end of the month.

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, ...

A new biography suggests that the eighth U.S. president, who was born in Kinderhook, deserves to be remembered — though not ...

“The first time I saw Abraham Lincoln ... According to the 1960 book Colonel Elmer Ellsworth: A Biography of Lincoln's Friend and First Hero of the Civil War by Ruth Painter Randall, Lincoln ...

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything ... reinforced the most unflattering views of Mary Lincoln, in the biography he co-wrote in 1889 titled Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...