Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The upcoming documentary 'Lover of Men' features interviews with scholars, historians and Abraham Lincoln experts Abraham ...

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

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of who Lincoln was. They investigate primary source documents in order to ...

Samuel J. Seymour was just five years old when he sat in the balcony at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 and heard the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States and was known as “The Great Emancipator,” is Monday, Feb. 12. According to History.com, ...

Installation view of Georges Adéagbo's Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (photograph by Brad ...

Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield offers free admission, kids' activities, and showcases a signed Emancipation ...

A 1912 Geneva city document suggests that Abraham Lincoln had visited the town and spoken outside a former courthouse. Geneva History Museum Executive Director Terry Emma said the document was ...

A West Virginia man is trying to fill out the history of a dresser he believes once was owned by Abe Lincoln, and used by the ...