DECATUR - Dan Guillory arrived in Decatur to teach English at Millikin University in 1972. From Louisiana, he had the emotional burden of coming from the heart of Dixie into the lair of the historical ...

Nearly eight years ago, Dan Guillory began writing about Abraham Lincoln's love for Ann Rutledge. Along the way, the project was transformed into a book about the only poet president. "One of the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A presidential historian has found a poem about suicide that he believes might have been penned by Abraham Lincoln. Richard Lawrence Miller, the author of ``Truman: The Rise ...

President Lincoln supposedly sent his sincerest condolences to a grieving mother in the historic Bixby Letter on this day in history, Nov. 21, 1864. In the fall of 1864, Gov. John A. Andrew of ...