Abraham Lincoln

NPR’s Steve Inskeep shares the story of Abraham Lincoln as a politician through sixteen encounters with people who differed with him in some way.

Jack LeChien, the Belleville historian and co-chairman of the Gustave Koerner House Restoration committee, had heard people speculate for decades on whether Abraham Lincoln had slept in the city during his 1856 visit. If so, where?

One hundred images in the museum’s collection of more than 13 million items are featured as 3D images. Visitors to the website can enlarge, turn upside down and spin around objects.

H.W. Brands’ new book “The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom” puts the two men’s lives in context. He discussed it on "St. Louis on the Air."

Officials at Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, known as the ALPLM, are once again trying to verify the authenticity of a...

An Illinois watchdog has determined the head of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield violated policy by loaning its copy of…

A bible belonging to Abraham Lincoln has been unveiled to the public for the first time in 150 years.

As Illinois celebrates the 210th birthday of favorite son Abraham Lincoln, officials with the Springfield presidential museum created in his honor hope to…

The men who took the most memorable photographs during the Civil War are the subject of local author Nick Pistor’s newest book, “Shooting Lincoln: Mathew…

It’s 1865 once more in the Land of Lincoln.On Sunday, an army of uniformed re-enactors, about 1,000 strong, will take to the streets of Springfield, Ill.,…