The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from ...

The tiny central Illinois village of New Salem, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did ...

While we can’t definitively say Abraham Lincoln was gay, we’re pretty certain he shared his bed with men on multiple ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

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

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that ...

The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers, including the Air and Space Museum and the National ...

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