Ever wondered about the origins of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture seated on a bench in downtown Bloomington? Here's a look ...

When President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary — in 1863, while in the White House — received a live turkey for the family to feast on at Christmas, their precocious eight-year-old son Tad ...

Lincoln surrounded himself with strong, capable people. Lincoln assembled a “team of rivals” in his cabinet, which had former ...

Abe Lincoln's few schooldays were spent at a 'blab school': that is, one in which the children 'read out,' Chinese fashion, ... The nickname, 'honest Abe,' attached to him while he was a boy.

A boy becomes a man. Lincoln’s life story actually began in Kentucky with his ... a bronze bas-relief of 19-year-old Abraham Lincoln marks the spot on the Ohio River where he departed on a ...

Abraham Lincoln loved to eat—and he also wasn’t afraid to throw on an apron and cook. Here are a few of the foods he enjoyed ...

Abraham Lincoln referred to it as "the ludicrous incident of sewing up the hogs eyes." "As a youngster he shot a wild turkey and was so disgusted he claimed he never again raised a weapon to kill ...

Abraham Lincoln’s ties to Thanksgiving go beyond the 1863 proclamation that declared the last Thursday in November to be “set apart…as a day of Thanksgiving.” In fact, it was the 16th ...

Abraham Lincoln loved to eat—and he also wasn’t afraid to throw on an apron and cook. Here are a few of the foods he enjoyed most. According to the 16th president’s last bodyguard, Colonel ...