Abraham Lincoln

The fate of 1,500-plus artifacts, including some tied to Lincoln’s murder, is unclear as a foundation pulls items out of a state Lincoln museum.

Tuesday was the 157th anniversary of when Abraham Lincoln’s body was transported through Bloomington to Springfield on the train named “The Lincoln Special."

Tazewell County is rededicating a trio of markers celebrating the old Eighth Judicial Circuit where Abraham Lincoln got his start as a frontier lawyer.

A Bloomington attorney and Lincoln scholar has given an 1854 letter Lincoln wrote to a Peoria Attorney to the Abraham Lincoln Library and Presidential Museum in Springfield.

A new book studying the connections Abraham Lincoln had to Illinois State University is drawing rave reviews.Historian Tom Emery and ISU alum Carl Kasten…

A long-running effort to make the life of Abraham Lincoln more accessible to the public has reached a new milestone.The Abraham Lincoln Presidential…

At a time when America is reckoning with much of its racist past, a historian says museums show that many historical figures were flawed people.McLean…

The McLean County Museum of History has announced the donation of what staff call an “invaluable” Lincoln document by Lincoln collector and scholar Guy…

Both major political parties could substantially change or disappear entirely after the 2020 presidential elections, according to a longtime political…

This weekend is the 10th annual Lincoln’s Festival on Route 66 in Bloomington. One of the main attractions will be Herbert Mitgang’s one-man play “Mr.…