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Burlington’s Kylee Hill strikes a pose on the podium after her win in the Class 4A girls shot put Friday at the Iowa High ...
The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln ...
The items, which were intended to be part of a permanent collection at the Lincoln Presidential Foundation in Illinois, were sold to help reduce the foundation’s debt.
The anonymous “Paddle 1231” won most of the priciest artifacts, including a lock of Lincoln’s hair and a pair of ...
The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...
The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for ...
Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.
“I cannot think of another president, apart from Abraham Lincoln, who faced a civil war from the moment he was sworn into office, who has had a more consequential, inspiring, and important first ...
The film chronicles the early life of Abraham Lincoln, born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky. It highlights his family's struggles during their westward migration, including the death of his mother ...
A 1912 Geneva city document suggests that Abraham Lincoln had visited the town and spoken outside a former courthouse. Geneva History Museum Executive Director Terry Emma said the document was ...