Young Abraham Lincoln's tiny Illinois town is due for a makeover. Story by JOHN O'CONNOR • 1h. P ETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before ...

Abraham Lincoln, right, and Stephen Douglas are depicted debating at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., ... Abraham Lincoln, is the subject of a new book aimed at young adults.

THE YOUNG LINCOLN. Share full article. Jan. 21, 1909. ... of Mr. FREDERICK TREVOR HILL'S account of ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S "Legacy of Inspiration to Americans." ...

Abraham Lincoln once described his childhood as “the short and simple annals of the poor.” Born in a small log cabin in what was then the western frontier, Lincoln fell in love with books at a ...

The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from 1831 to 1837. The federal government reconstructed the village in the 1930s.

Young Abraham Lincoln's tiny Illinois town is due for a makeover. JOHN O'CONNOR. Mon, ... part of the reconstructed village of New Salem where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837, March 10 ...