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

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

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

The penny, which costs more to make than it's worth, will be going away. That's a shocking reversal of government policy.

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The Associated Press' ...

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 ...

Back in 1860, the ideas that had emboldened the war were debated in Santa Cruz, through fiery editorials in local and San ...

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 Massachusetts State House will soon install a bust of Elizabeth Freeman, the formerly enslaved woman whose 1781 legal ...

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E. Park St.

Looking for Lincoln Conversations’ next online discussion will cover slavery in Illinois and its eventual end, largely at the hands of the courts. While Illinois joined the United States in 1818 as a ...

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