Lincoln's "Lost Speech" has been called the most important event in Bloomington history, but the journey to a create a mural ...

TRENTON — Four score and 70 years ago, President-elect Abraham Lincoln marched through five states on his way to his inauguration, stopping in Trenton to address New Jersey’s legislators as ...

Charles Francis Adams wrote that Lincoln’s whistle-stop addresses “have fallen like a wet blanket” and “put to flight all notions of greatness.” Massachusetts statesman Edward Everett believed the ...

‘Full house’ for speech. In 1854, Lincoln was here in Urbana as a circuit-riding lawyer of the 8th Judicial Circuit of Illinois. He would come to Urbana to handle clients’ business in our ...

Last week, I wrote of the brief stop that Abraham Lincoln's funeral train made in Rochester in April 1865, on its way to his final resting place in Illinois. A reader then called to inquire about ...

Excerpted from "Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion". Through the cool evening mist of Tuesday, April 11, 1865, darkness gave way to light. The White House was ...

Opinion In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one. Lincoln’s opponents turned his ‘house divided’ speech against him.