Third book in planned five-part series from local author Jan Jacobi, “Lincoln and Douglas” deals with Lincoln's historic ...

Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates ...

The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...

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The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...

As a young man in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was a religious skeptic. Raised in the Presbyterian Church, he would later decline to attend services and publicly question Christianity’s central tenets.

Abraham Lincoln wanted to “let them (the defeated ... reducing the occupying Union Army force until it was ineffectual. If the book has a fault, it’s the meticulous detail and profusion ...

"Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln" (Pangaeus Press) details the story of Nance Legins-Costley, whose case has long been a footnote in history. The book's author Kevin Orlin ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted to “let them (the defeated ... How COVID changed health care If the book has a fault, it’s the meticulous detail and profusion of names, even of minor characters who ...