The white-leather gloves are stained with blood from the night the slain president wore them to the theater.

New Salem, a tiny central Illinois village where Lincoln spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, has fallen into disrepair.

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of his ...

PETERSBURG, Ill — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had ... reconstructed cabins, with many more ...

(AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem ... donations paid for some ...

PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem.

Lewin Henry Cohen was a fascinating 19th century physician with a famous relative. He was born in Scotland to English parents ...