Steve Haaff, an expert in Thomas Lincoln furniture, talks to a group assembled at the Indiana State Museum on Jan. 24 about the new Lincoln chest loaned to the museum by Mildred Moore, seen to the ...

Samuel Wheeler, former state historian and director of research and collections at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, speaks on Abraham Lincoln's relationship with his father, Thomas ...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN on a mattress of corn husks in a nest of bear rugs on the morning of February 12, a Sabbath, 1809. The United States was then an infant nation with another risky war against ...

What to do this Father’s Day? You could have a picnic, buy Dad a beer or catch a baseball game. But for history buffs, there’s another way to celebrate: by visiting some furniture made by Abraham ...

Abraham Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln, was an ensign in the Kentucky state militia. According to Abraham Lincoln's public accounts, his father, Thomas Lincoln, came off as a shiftless, jobless ...

JANESVILLE Before he left Illinois to assume the presidency, Abraham Lincoln visited the graves of his father and stepmother. And it was John W. Baker, grandfather of Charleston resident Gale Baker, ...

The larger part of our information concerning Abraham Lincoln's boyhood is derived from his own brief reference to that period, and from the self-centred statements of his cousin, Dennis Hanks. These, ...