The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

"Abe Lincoln's few schooldays were spent at a 'blab school': that is, one in which the children 'read out,' Chinese fashion, at the tops of their voices." The larger part of our information ...

Union cause. But many Republicans in Congress were urging him to take a stand for freedom. In 1862, under his authority as commander in chief, Lincoln drafted and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ...

Spray paint-wielding vandals in Chicago covered an iconic Abraham Lincoln statue with bizarre slogans on Monday — including ...

Presented by Abraham Lincoln reenactor Kevin Wood, the program the story of how Thanksgiving became a national tradition ...

Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the greatest presidential athlete in American history. Even though Dwight Eisenhower was inducted ...

Abraham Lincoln richly deserves his own day instead of getting mashed into the employer-convenient “President's Day.” Doubtless he deserves his own holiday as a martyr fighting to preserve the ...

This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting.

Onlookers at the Abraham Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park which was defaced with red paint overnight and discovered Monday. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Vandals splashed red paint and ...

that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Earlier that day, Lincoln was unusually cheerful. He had spoken with his son Robert that morning about his experience as a soldier, and General ...

A new exhibit pays tribute to the late Illinois sculptor Richard Hunt at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Four score and seven years from now, the mystic chords of memory may recall the way Donald Trump compared himself to Abraham ...