Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation ... New Salem withered shortly after Lincoln’s 1837 departure as residents picked up and moved when many transplanted their ...

After Years of Neglect, an Illinois Village With Ties to Abraham Lincoln Is Getting a Refresh PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he ...