In 1860, Abraham Lincoln (and the Republican Party) stood as the only viable alternative to the moral indifference of Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” and the pro-slavery ...

In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem; he also offered services as a wood chopper, county deputy surveyor, and lawyer. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room ...

You’ve heard it before: we are living in divided times. Disagreement is part of being a citizen of a democracy, but in today's indisputably hot political climate, young people have stepped up into ...

Election Day is coming up on Nov. 5, and if you're thinking that today's politics are complicated, consider what happened in Abraham Lincoln's day. After he was elected, but before he could even be ...

A delicate maneuver has ensured Libertyville’s tie to an influential grass-roots movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln president in 1860 will be preserved. The link is a nearly 6-foot-by-6-foot ...

As the season of presidential politics 2012 unfolds, I'm struck by similarities between today and the tumultuous period in our history that led up to the election of Abraham Lincoln and then on to the ...

BLOOMINGTON — On Nov. 21, 1860, president-elect Abraham Lincoln made his last appearance in Bloomington, a city that meant much to his legal and political career. Since the late 1830s, Lincoln had ...