The larger-than-life legacy of Abraham Lincoln lies, in part, in the smallest special-collections division of the University ...

1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...

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

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

Jon Meacham — the Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian — will be out Tuesday with an introduction for a new Random ...

Artists and writers from around the world have conveyed black people’s struggles, triumphs and contributions to American ...

Abraham Lincoln assassination coverage revisited. ... Six of the papers came from two collections the museum purchased, and the seventh is on loan from a private collector.

A 1912 Geneva city document suggests that Abraham Lincoln had visited the town and spoken outside a former courthouse. Geneva History Museum Executive Director Terry Emma said the document was ...

Bloomington likely first to name street for Abraham Lincoln There are 75,000 U.S. streets named for Lincoln, but the first known was in Bloomington, which honored the beloved local attorney in 1858.

In the new documentary “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln,” director Shaun Peterson tackles decades’ worth of speculation about the sexual orientation of the towering 16th ...

When then-President Donald Trump addressed the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2017, he referred to Abraham Lincoln as a “Great president. Most people don’t even know he was a ...

Lincoln on DemocracyEdited by Mario M. Cuomo and Harold HolzerHarperCollins, 416 pages, $24.95The Lincoln Family AlbumBy Mark E. Neely Jr. and Harold HolzerDoubleday, 173 pages, $35`As I would not ...