The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...

Then in his early 20s — and long before his career as a politician — Abraham Lincoln was a complete unknown. He’d drifted to New Salem after his family moved to Coles County, where he found ...

The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon ...

During the weeks after Lincoln’s ... up and asks what I’m doing. Before long, he’s spilling out stories about Lincoln—the town and the president (“Abraham,” he says familiarly) all ...

Most are on Honest Abe’s Feb. 12 birthday. Indiana honors him with a day off for state employees on the day after Thanksgiving, which Lincoln is ... a Vermont farm boy before becoming ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on ... In that atmosphere, Lincoln made a stop in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, where he gave a speech before a bipartisan crowd that sought to instill hope for the fate of ...

On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, President Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months. Five volunteer companies ...

Ten days after A.N.'s death, another USS Abraham Lincoln sailor overdosed on fentanyl ... counterfeit Percocet for approximately a year before his overdose and A.N.'s death, mostly while on ...

Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court ... vacated Johnson said Lincoln sold the slaves after the death of his father-in-law, Robert Smith Todd.

A historical exhibit at the Kansas Statehouse includes a display quoting President Abraham Lincoln next to a map showing the original extent of the Kansas-Nebraska territories before Kansas became ...

“When I go to a county fair, I usually don’t have to wander far before ... Abe's Feb. 12 birthday. Indiana honors him with a day off for state employees on the day after Thanksgiving, which ...