Lincoln's "Lost Speech" has been called the most important event in Bloomington history, but the journey to a create a mural ...

In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a ...

Two constitutional signers, Lincoln noted, were present in that Congress as the government further restricted slavery. Lincoln moved to the "Missouri question" of 1819-20, with two signers of the ...

BLOOMINGTON — Almost 170 years after Abraham Lincoln delivered an impassioned speech against slavery at a political gathering in downtown Bloomington, a new mural within sight of the spot now ...

Lincoln opposed slavery with moral clarity. ... will give the keynote address, “Abraham Lincoln and the Power of the Emancipation Proclamation.” The dinner has sold out, ...

Abraham Lincoln is often ranked as one of the United States’s most important presidents for his role in steering the country through the Civil War and his insistence on abolishing slavery ...

BLOOMINGTON — The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain ...

The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.