Kate's Brief History

On Monday, President’s Day, the Naper Settlement tweeted about the “urban legend” of Abraham Lincoln speaking from the roof of the Pre-...

Photo by WikiMedia Commons The Museum of Funeral Customs used to be right outside the entrance to Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield where Ab...

On Sunday, September 6, 1846, Abraham Lincoln sent his friend Andrew Johnston a poem. It was the second canto of work he started a couple y...

While this story comes from the Baltic Sea and not Illinois, the time period is right for Abraham Lincoln. Divers in July found the wrecka...

During the summer of 1941, the Ottawa Daily Republican-Times ran a grainy photograph showing a Civil War-era crowd standing in front of a...

In the last edition of this newsletter we mentioned that 145 years ago to the day, Abraham Lincoln was lying in state in Washington, DC. Tod...

John Wilkes Booth shot the President on the evening of April 14 and on April 15 Lincoln died. That was just six days after General Robert E....

The last of four re-designs of the Lincoln penny was unveiled last month in Springfield, ending a year-long recognition of the President'...

Friday is Abraham Lincoln's two hundred and first birthday. That probably signals the end of an entire year of celebrating our sixteent...

Over Thanksgiving weekend, an Ohio man downsized his extensive Lincoln memorabilia collection. Eighty-five year old Georg Hoffman of Delawar...

This sounds like the perfect project for long winter nights! The Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission offers Build Your Ow...

Abraham Lincoln was born February 9, 1809, and the state of Illinois has been celebrating all year. Lincoln has always generated a lot of i...

Last time we mentioned that Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln would be greeting guests at the Chicago History Museum's member night. The presid...

Tonight President and Mrs. Lincoln will be welcoming Chicago History Museum members to a special viewing of a new exhibit called "...