More than 100 relics connected to President Abraham Lincoln brought in $7.9 million, auctioneers said. The proceeds will help ...

The items, which were intended to be part of a permanent collection at the Lincoln Presidential Foundation in Illinois, were ...

The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for ...

Following the Civil War and the assassination of the president, Douglas penned a letter that was republished in newspapers of ...

A page from a childhood workbook. Remnants from the campaign trail. The small cuff button he wore on the night he died.

Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

Centre College will soon pay tribute to one of its most distinguished alumni, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: ... Fragment of notes for a law lecture, circa July 1, 1850 75. “You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted.

While at the Library of Congress, Ari Siegel encountered a handwritten letter from Abraham Lincoln, and said the experience taught him that primary source documents were the key to learning history.

The mention of Abraham Lincoln's name on Thursday night became one of the most memorable exchanges in the final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. As the debate turned to a ...

“Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln” features items from the Lincoln Presidential Foundation, dating from the president’s early life through his deat ...