“Abraham Lincoln loved books and understood their power to change lives. That’s why we celebrate his birthday by encouraging children to read,” said Christina Shutt, executive director of ...

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

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War and worked to end slavery. His life was cut short early ...

An 86-year-old Chicago bookshop is young compared to its contents, and everywhere you look inside the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, there's a lot of Lincoln. "Everything is old here. Nothing is new ...

A work of meticulous scholarship, this book traces every Biblical reference in the massive nine-volume Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953). In his second Inaugural Address – “a seven hundred ...

1. Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd, lost three of their four children early on. Eddie died at age 3 of "chronic consumption" (likely tuberculosis), and Willie was born 10 months later.

who raised the Lincoln children with love and affection. The Lincolns moved again, this time to Illinois, when Abraham was 21. Shortly after, Abraham settled in New Salem, Illinois, where he ...