It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

The lawyer for four Lincoln-area gun owners told the Nebraska Supreme Court during oral arguments Thursday that his clients ...

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the ...

Hester, a daughter of Rejoice and Rebecca, married John W. Wetherell, part of a wealthy farming family that owned land west ...

President Donald Trump should follow Abraham Lincoln in responding to judicial overreach, former appeals court clerk Josh ...

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 village ...

“That was destiny,” said Guy Fraker, a Bloomington, Illinois, lawyer and Lincoln biographer, “because if he hadn’t, I really firmly believe we’d be two countries.” Lincoln freed the ...

The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating PETERSBURG, Ill. -- Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his ...

Lincoln struggled with mood swings and endured repeated political disappointments. Despite those obstacles, he became a prosperous lawyer, skilled debater, masterful writer and generally is ranked ...