In 1831, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had been hired by a man named Denton Offutt to deliver the boat ...

By the time Lincoln left the town in 1837, he was a state legislator and his political career was taking off. While New Salem was essentially abandoned in the years after Lincoln departed for ...

Full Transcript of the Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln. Delivered March 4, 1861 -- Fellow-Citizens of the United States: In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear ...

The Lincoln letter, dated Nov. 27, 1854, has been authenticated by several sources and was part of the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln which was printed in the 1950s, ALPLM officials said.

Lincoln’s greatness lay not in his specific political stances, for in many ways he followed rather than led on the challenges posed by slavery and race. Rather, his greatness lies in the humility he ...

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From this year 1832 we enter upon the public life of Abraham Lincoln. He was twenty-three years of age only, and yet it was thought that his popularity would ensure his party success.

PETERSBURG — In 1831, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking.

PETERSBURG — In 1831, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Efforts underway to restore crumbling site where Abraham ...