Feb. 16—Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate the year before to Stephen A. Douglas, ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned to ...

President Abraham Lincoln was asked to speak at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg. On that day, Nov. 19, 1863, Lincoln gave a 2-minute, 272-word speech that The Patriot ...

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." So said Abraham Lincoln in his "House Divided" speech, given 165 years ago. Many describe contemporary America in the same terms. We're a house divided ...

Abraham Lincoln got one thing very wrong on Nov. 19, 1863, while dedicating a new military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, when he said the world "will little note, nor long remember what we say ...

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago. Many describe contemporary America in the same terms. We’re a house divided ...

What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago, on Thursday May 29, 1856, ignited Abraham Lincoln’s march to the presidency, and eventually led to the Civil War-era 13th, 14th and 15 amendments, which ...

Scott Heckel, a now-retired Repository staff photographer, took this photo in 2020 of the small monument erected in Alliance to honor the short visit to the city by Abraham Lincoln on his way by train ...

A drone perspective of one of the most important periods in the life of Abraham Lincoln. It documents the travels of the Springfield lawyer as he “rode the circuit” in central Illinois in the late ...