Young Abraham Lincoln's tiny Illinois town is due for a makeover
Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...
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Don Wesely remembered as a devoted dad, get-on-the-floor grandpa and loyal friend
First-Plymouth Congregational Church was overflowing with friends and colleagues who remembered Don Wesely as a devoted dad ...
Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart is offered plea deal to avoid death penalty
The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart near the U.S.-Mexico border in ...
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Efforts underway to restore crumbling site where Abraham Lincoln began his political rise
Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site has fallen into disrepair as the tab for deferred maintenance on properties managed ...