The larger-than-life legacy of Abraham Lincoln lies, in part, in the smallest special-collections division of the University ...

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

Starring a three-time Oscar winner as the protagonist, the Steven Spielberg directorial is considered to be a 'masterpiece' ...

Roger Q. Mason’s stage play and film Lavender Men considers Abraham Lincoln's love life and interrogates American mythology.

One is Lincoln, the other Booth, and the two struggle and hustle to survive in this play, which ends Saturday.

Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is doubtless one of the greatest speeches in world history. Short yet poignant, the speech delivered ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a museum that gives new meaning to the phrase “deadly serious” – the National Museum of Funeral History. This isn’t your typical “let’s go see some ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin added two of the most iconic artifacts in American history to his growing ...

1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...

The voices of the two young girls carried into the room where I was standing in the Fithian Home. “Is that him?” one asked ...

A total of 461 different lots will be available through the auction with items ranging from a McDonald's gift certificate ...