The white kid gloves that the former president was wearing the night that he was assassinated will be part of the "Lincoln's ...

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The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of ...

PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem.

Batavia’s Books Between Bites is wrapping up its 36th season with two more programs. On Thursday, April 10, Dan Hoefler, a retired history teacher and president of the Batavia Historical Society ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...

The most potent lesson in Vorenberg’s “Lincoln’s Peace” is to carefully consider all the issues at stake in planning what to do after the fighting stops. Abraham Lincoln wanted ... it was ineffectual.

Edmund Wilson, who died in 1972, was a longtime book critic and essayist for the magazine. Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy On a chilly Wednesday afternoon, the President announced he ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows "Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" by Michael Vorenberg. (Knopf via AP) ...