Bargain hunters and treasure seekers of the Pacific Northwest – prepare for a shopping adventure that will transform your modest Andrew Jackson (and his friend Abraham Lincoln) into a cart full of ...

An exhibition of photographs tracing John F. Kennedy's life opens at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum on Feb. 15. Some are iconic images of Camelot, while many have rarely been seen ...

Before assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was a famous actor who once took the stage in Lexington.

The last penny was minted Wednesday at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, spelling the end of America’s longest-running coin ...

President Donald Trump has once again made headlines for his sweeping changes to the White House. Recently, he announced that ...

The Sangamon County Circuit Clerk's Office is offering the public an easy way to register their passport this weekend.

Though Lincoln himself was not Jewish, his words of support drawn from the faith of history’s first Jew continue to serve as ...

Author Robert Watson provided a short overview about the Civil War during the summer of 1864 and the near invasion of Washington, D.C., by Confederate forces. The National Civil War Museum in ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was admitted to the union as the 41st state. In ...

“That meant to communicate a morally exemplary Lincoln meant capturing a physically fit Lincoln,” the publication writes.

For a president in the mid-19th century to show such personal concern for a Black man’s welfare is astounding. But consider ...