Illinois' best-known city might be Chicago, but outside that bustling metropolis, the state also offers a capital sure to ...

BENJAMIN THOMAS, the author of the best single-volume biography of Lincoln, reminds us that following the election of President Zachary Taylor in 1848, ...

Indiana's coin shows a young Lincoln sitting on a log, reading a book. It's meant to depict his time in Indiana from 1816 to ...

Though Lincoln himself was not Jewish, his words of support drawn from the faith of history’s first Jew continue to serve as ...

“That meant to communicate a morally exemplary Lincoln meant capturing a physically fit Lincoln,” the publication writes. Statues created elsewhere also depict Lincoln in unusually brawny form, though ...

An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an extraordinary relationship the two had despite the demands the new president had ...

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Sometimes the best adventures aren’t found in bustling metropolises or exotic destinations, but in the quiet corners of the heartland where history whispers from every storefront and locals still wave ...