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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Abraham's mother was a tall, bony, sinewy, undemanding woman of about twenty-five, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, a bastard child, a good wrestler on a frontier where wrestling was an important sport engaged in ...

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, ...