The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.

Every year since 1976, regardless of the weather, Phil Stone has come to the cemetery on the Lincoln Homestead to honor Abraham Lincoln on his birthday.

Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...