A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

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

Zaakir Tameez is the author of “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation,” to be released on June 3.

The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain for a transcript. A ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

The penny, which costs more to make than it's worth, will be going away. That's a shocking reversal of government policy. Usually, the government doesn't stop producing anything that's overpriced or ...

Yet while these indomitable Anti-Slavery States, without hesitation, declare for ABRAHAM LINCOLN, men whose Anti-Slaveryism is but the growth of yesterday are clamoring importunately about the ...

Looking for Lincoln Conversations’ next online discussion will cover slavery in Illinois and its eventual end, largely at the ...

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

From Civil War dramas to zombie thrillers, you might be surprised to learn that several popular movies and TV shows were ...

The day is known as Juneteenth, a blend of the words "June" and "nineteenth." It refers to June 19, 1865 — the day when news of emancipation finally reached Texas, the last place to learn about the ...