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A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...
Ever wondered about the origins of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture seated on a bench in downtown Bloomington? Here's a look ...
Updated: May 23, 2025 / 02:32 PM CDT CHICAGO (WGN) – A trove of historic artifacts and memorabilia associated with President Abraham Lincoln were auctioned off for nearly $8 million on Wednesday.
Abraham Lincoln's bloodstained gloves from Ford's Theatre sold for $1.52 million at auction. Other items included a handkerchief and a "wanted" poster.
Abraham Lincoln’s bloodstained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction By Associated Press Published May 22, 2025, 7:37 a.m. ET ...
An auction of precious Abraham Lincoln artifacts raised close to $8 million Wednesday, meaning a likely seven-figure windfall for a cash-strapped Springfield foundation that was selling part of ...
Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew ...
The National Park Service does not list Geneva among the seven 1858 debate stops in Illinois while Lincoln was challenging incumbent Douglas for the U.S. Senate in 1858.
Jerusalem Post Diaspora How Abraham Lincoln in a kippah wound up making a $250,000 deal on ‘Shark Tank’ While at the Library of Congress, Ari Siegel encountered a handwritten letter from ...
How Abraham Lincoln in a kippah wound up making a $250,000 deal on ‘Shark Tank’ Jewish entrepreneur Ari Siegel secured a $250,000 investment on the show for his business, History By Mail .
“And, sure enough, when he was president, Abraham Lincoln issued passports to blacks in the Western territory of the U.S., in direct defiance, actually, of the Dred Scott case.” ...
When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...