Gina Gillmore-Wolter, president of the New Salem Lincoln League, explains that the drive shaft, just over her right shoulder, ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War ...

The students of Sheridan Elementary School were in for a unique educational experience recently, as Abraham Lincoln himself ...

Nearly a century after the Civil Conservation Corps reconstructed the once-thriving village of New Salem where Abraham ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

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Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had ...

Building tension and violence threatens to unravel the peace deal that halted ethnic conflict in 2018. South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, agreed to a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...