One hundred sixty years ago this week, the nation was in mourning following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...

(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. The tiny central Illinois ...

Abraham Lincoln remains one of America’s enduring figures and most famous presidents. However, one man does not exist in a ...

A massive trove of Abraham Lincoln’s historical writings, keepsakes and personal effects is heading to the auction block in ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln ... the capitol, Springfield. Illinois state ...

Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th ...