When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

Before they got to the White House, these future presidents worked as lawyers, journalists, and businessmen.

After he was elected president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was faced with filling patronage positions in the Washington Territory. Just eight years old, the Washington Territory needed territorial suprem ...

Gloves Lincoln Wore to Ford’s Theater Sell for $1.5 Million at Auction. More than 100 relics connected to President Abraham Lincoln brought in $7.9 million, auctioneers said.

In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Campbell’s focus is far from skirmishes but rather ...

"Make America Great Again" Republicans refuse to believe that their constituents may seriously disagree with them on anything ...

More than 200 people took part in this year’s annual Juneteenth A Celebration of Freedom Walk on June 19 in Grayslake.

June 19 is a U.S. national holiday known as Juneteenth. It combines the words June and Nineteenth, the day in 1865 on which ...

The Trump administration will likely lose those cases, thanks to the strong American tradition of jury resistance.

On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the Coming ...

There comes a time in every car owner’s life when you have to make the decision whether to continue to throw money into what ...