In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...

One of the men accused of attempting to recruit U.S. Navy sailors to work for China was ordered held in custody by a judge in ...

U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, both Democrats from Illinois, announced $942,571 in ...

The ten-acre former site of Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in Levittown could soon be developed into 89 age-qualified ...

Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred slavery. Some were willing to end it by any necessary means, including violence.

Ivy League professor father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani linked Hitler's Holocaust to Abraham Lincoln during ...

Kori Rumore, a journalist at The Chicago Tribune, joins John Landecker to talk about Abraham Lincoln’s angry letter directed ...

The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

Obama was caught on a hot mic in 2009 calling Kanye West a "jacka***" after the rapper interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance ...

An 83-year-old woman from Joliet died Wednesday after crashing her vehicle at Abraham National Cemetery in Elwood, the Will ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...