In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on June 27, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

If I forget thee,” Abraham Lincoln thought, speaking not at this moment of God’s Law but of the doctrine of the Declaration ...

Abraham Lincoln furiously scribbled in Springfield on June 27, 1858, firing off a gruff note to the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Press & Tribune, then in business for only 11 years.

Alton’s first baseball action was in 1858 ...

On the Fourth of July, contributing columnist Mike Vogel writes about what really matters, starting with the Bill of Rights ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

A document beginning, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ meaning obvious, kindles something new: the American spirit.

Abraham Lincoln, right, and Stephen Douglas are depicted debating at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., in 1858 inside the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill.

In a time when respectful debate seems impossible, high school speech and debate clubs have persevered. Debate team members and sponsors see the activity as even more important in a fracturing society ...

The collection of family artifacts at Ewing Cultural Center is set to expand with a fresh batch of items gifted to the historical home in Bloomington.

Most pennies today have little value, but those from the early American colonies can sell for thousands of dollars. In 2010, ...