HYDE PARK, N.Y. — The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will screen the 1940 film, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” on Saturday, Feb. 14, according to an announcement. The free President ...

Abraham Lincoln Long Nine Museum Open HouseFri., Feb. 13, 1-5 p.m.200 S. Main St., Athens Celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s 217th ...

The Lincoln Museum hosts free days Feb. 7 and 12 featuring family activities, live music and access to a signed Emancipation Proclamation.

Historian Allen Guelzo will speak at Lincoln’s 217th birthday banquet Feb. 12 in Springfield. A free symposium follows on Feb ...

Over 125 years after his death, Newton Bateman is one of the unsung heroes in the fight for equal education in Illinois.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln, has died. He was 86.

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

When Union forces retreated, soldiers and civilians fled together in panic, clogging roads and worsening the rout. The event ...

After reaching San Francisco — the first winter automobile crossing of the US — teams discovered there was no viable route to ...

A brisk look at the iconic U.S. brands, from jeans, jets, tech, and credit, that helped define how America lives, buys and travels.

For America to be bereft of Lincoln’s leadership in the wake of the civil war, which had effectively ended with Robert E. Lee ...

From Abraham Lincoln's patent to James A. Garfield's geometry proof, learn how these 19th- and 20th-century commanders in ...