A massive trove of Abraham Lincoln’s historical writings, keepsakes and personal effects is heading to the auction block in ...

Check out the latest exhibits and events Central Illinois museums, galleries and historic sites have to offer.

Nathan Koble is personally designing and financing a historical marker to be erected in Lake City this summer.

Charles "Chuck" Hartke, a hog farmer from Teutopolis who served in the Illinois House and later as the state's agriculture director, died on Sunday. He was 80 years ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is launching a transformative landscaping project that will revitalize Union Square Park with native Illinois plants and flowers, adding new depth a ...

It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once was memorized by generations of American ...

I worked hard to fulfill my dream, and thankfully I was successful. Some 7,000 copies are used at Seder tables throughout the ...

A few months later, back at the National Library ... Abraham Lincoln. A historian of the Civil War explained to me that many men may have looked and dressed like Lincoln. At the Magnes Museum ...