Critics are warning that without swift intervention, "we risk losing these historical assets" at Lincoln's New Salem site.

Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years ...

Facing the crisis of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln drew on religious feeling to help galvanize the North—and to bolster his ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois state flag may be around a lot longer, it turns out. About 43% of the 385,000 votes in an ...

Jackson will be interviewed by Ross Stanton Jordan, curator of the ALPLM’s “Freedom in Form” exhibition. At 2 p.m. the same ...

The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...