More than 200 years after the Lincolns left town, the family has their own reserved parking spot in Elizabethtown. Stone pavers cover a single parking spot at 117 N. Main St., indicating it's a place ...

America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, on this day in history, Feb. 12, 1809. Lincoln grew up in a poor family, the son of a Kentucky frontiersman — and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States and was known as “The Great Emancipator,” is Sunday, Feb. 12. According to History.com, ...

Kentuckians know the Bluegrass State is the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, but the Commonwealth was also home to his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. In fact, her family lived in a Georgian abode in downtown ...

Susannah J. Ural holds the Williams Chair in Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies at Mississippi State University. A military historian by training, she specializes in 19th century America, with an ...