Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we approach Juneteenth, let's also acknowledge some ugly truths ...

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 ...

Mourners are paying their respects to former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel as his body lies in state at New York City Hall. The ...

The rare document could fetch $8 million.

Owners of three structures in the city have until June 20 to take action to fix issues with their properties or risk the city ...

The Washington Department of Natural Resources has been using a firefighting helicopter to haul abandoned boats off an ...

WGLT talks to Raymond McKoski, the author of a new biography of David Davis, whose mansion and historic site in Bloomington ...

In 2012, in Turlock, California, 50,000 hens were abandoned in an egg farm. Every one of those trapped birds embodied a ...

Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew ...

Donation Options Search Search Search This pair of bloodstained gloves was in Abraham Lincoln’s possession when he was assassinated. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body ...

“The revered Abraham Lincoln and the famous Stephen A ... twenty years the building was but little used, was finally abandoned and fell into decay,” Stimple wrote. Stimple wrote that the ...

In 1831, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist ... While New Salem was essentially abandoned in the years after Lincoln departed for Springfield and then Washington, D.C., it was ...