NPR’s Morning Edition host and author Steve Inskeep visits the ACPL to discuss his book Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded ...

On October 3, 1863, expressing gratitude for a pivotal Union Army victory at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on November ...

Doris Keons Goodwin is an American journalist and political commentator. She has worked at the White House and taught about the presidency at Harvard University. Goodwin has written several ...

Three Louisiana residents have been arrested for allegedly stealing a rare solid silver Abraham Lincoln statue from the Houmas House Estate and Gardens in Darrow and cutting it into pieces to sell at ...

In August, history professor Michael Birkner gave a short speech in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, near where President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address in November 1863. The event was ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a rare, 64-pound silver statue of Abraham Lincoln was stolen from Houmas House and Gardens Saturday ...

“Loving Lincoln” encompasses the women he befriended, defended in divorce actions, those who wrote to seek pardons and government offices for their husbands, writers like Ida Tarbell, Ruth Painter ...

In our era, they might seem like performative gestures for the president. A quiet visit with the wife of a wounded soldier. A conversation with a battlefield nurse or a kitchen worker. A hand extended ...

In April of 1865, citizens of Bloomington gathered on the lawn of the courthouse to grieve the death of Abraham Lincoln. On Saturday (July 1), a new generation gathered in Lincoln's honor, this time ...

Judge David Davis was instrumental in Abraham Lincoln’s presidential nomination. David Davis, the Supreme Court justice, U.S. senator, and campaign manager for Abraham Lincoln, was not a very good ...