He chose to write in satirical verse, and composed most of his poetry as a teen ... so until Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865. He is the only president to hold a patent Abraham Lincoln ...

The Freedmen’s Bureau was established on March 3, 1865, when the act that created it was passed by Congress and later signed ...

Name-calling in politics is not a new phenomenon. In fact, it is as old as our nation’s history, writes columnist Juan A.

Ten men have been found guilty of murder over an attack in a suburban park more than four years ago which killed a teenager ...

Blood Drive: 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Jacksonville Memorial Hospital, 1600 W. Walnut St. | To donate, contact ImpactLife Springfield at 800-747-5401 or visit bloodcenter.org and use code 60058 to locate the ...

In addition to Aaron Copland’s "Appalachian Spring" and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, the orchestra will play Michael Daugherty’s "Letters from Lincoln," written in celebration of the 200th anniversary of ...

the orchestra will play Michael Daugherty’s "Letters from Lincoln," written in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and featuring baritone soloist Yazid Gray.

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys ... Adlai Stevenson recalled a story Abraham Lincoln told about a boy who stubbed his toe in the ...

The little slot was just wide enough to hold the penny there while you went about your teenage life of school ... we’ll still have the engraving of Abraham Lincoln, the president who issued ...

From Cillian Murphy and Will Smith to Sidney Poitier and Daniel Day-Lewis, a roll call of every Best Actor winner since the ...