Next month, history buffs will have the opportunity to bid on the gloves that President Lincoln wore on the night of his ...

He quotes Abraham Lincoln on his opposition to the decision in Dred Scott (1857), which he vowed at the time to reverse through legal means. But Lincoln was referring to a decision from the ...

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“And, sure enough, when he was president, Abraham Lincoln issued passports to blacks in the Western territory of the U.S., in direct defiance, actually, of the Dred Scott case.” The lawyer ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Abraham Lincoln, right, and Stephen Douglas are depicted debating at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., ...

Koble also is writing a children's book about Lincoln's visit to Girard Station and other local history. LAKE CITY — A bronze tablet mounted on red granite will commemorate Abraham Lincoln's ...

Call it “the Oh, Mary! effect” as questions around Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality are really having a moment in the culture, from Cole Escola’s hit Broadway show to last year’s documentary ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president, was also in my view the best of all presidential speechwriters. As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

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.