I have been fascinated by Abraham Lincoln since I was a young boy. My grandparents lived in Springfield, Illinois, and I loved every time we went to visit. I had the opportunity to see everything ...

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation presented Sam Waterston with its 18th annual Lincoln Leadership Prize at a ceremony in Chicago on April 21. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, received the Foundation's ...

A massive trove of Abraham Lincoln’s historical writings, keepsakes and personal effects is heading to the auction block in May. Ranging from boyhood scrawlings to the gloves he wore on the ...

Lincoln was adaptable enough that he could have mastered modern modes of political speech—today's sound-bite culture—had he lived in this era. He had a talent for getting to the point.

His speeches and writings—the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, the “House Divided” speech of the same year, the Cooper Union Speech of 1860—articulated these positions as unwavering ...

The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon Sengbloh — will play at La Jolla Playhouse through March 30.

I've written previously about Lincoln as our technology president, his enduring relevance to Republican philosophy and its Free-Labor ideology, his emancipation of the slaves in D.C. and ...

Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History is hallmarking Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday with the start of a coloring contest to celebrate Lincoln and work on a mural ...

August 14, 2024 In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote a scathing letter to his top Union general, who had squandered an opportunity to end the American Civil War. Then Lincoln folded it up ...

Opinion In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one. Lincoln’s opponents turned his ‘house divided’ speech against him.