Reservations are being taken at 217-235-5661 for the Coles County Historical Society’s July 21 Founder’s Day Dinner, which will feature a presentation on Mary Todd Lincoln.

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This book explores Abraham Lincoln’s struggle to preserve, and ultimately redefine, the exceptionalism of the American experiment. Lincoln’s vision evolved from his personal experiences.

World-renowned Abraham Lincoln scholars, including Michael Burlingame, will speak at a symposium at Cantigny Park on Saturday, June 21. Organized by the Abraham Lincoln Association, each speaker ...

Illinois state Rep. Wayne Rosenthal, R-Morrisonville, discusses the collapse of a portion of a barn that is part of the reconstructed village of New Salem, where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to ...

The statue “Young Abe Lincoln on Horseback,” was gifted to Syracuse University in 1973 by creator Anna Hyatt Huntington. She produced the piece in bronze in 1963 when she was 87 years old.

Natasha Richardson, JFK and Abraham Lincoln all suffered catastrophic brain injuries. But in a fascinating new book, a top surgeon asks...Could they have been SAVED?

Abraham Lincoln, JFK and Natasha Richardson all lost their lives due to shocking brain injuries, but this new book delves into whether they could have been saved.

Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great about America: He was courageous, compassionate, wise and quite likely gay. “Lover of Men” (in theaters now) is a revealing new documentary ...

An 86-year-old Chicago bookshop is young compared to its contents, and everywhere you look inside the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, there's a lot of Lincoln. "Everything is old here. Nothing is new ...

1. The author, a Clinton White House adviser, began a multivolume Lincoln biography with this atmospheric, authoritative curtain raiser. It reimagines the roiling political culture in which young ...