The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

President Abraham Lincoln moved to New Salem, Ill., a log cabin village where he would stay until 1837. Now, the re-created ...

Wayne C. "Doc" Temple, the indefatigable Abraham Lincoln scholar who wrote more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and ...

The donated items represent the families of Virgil and Catharine Hickox and Ninian and Elizabeth Todd Edwards.

The white kid gloves that the former president was wearing the night that he was assassinated will be part of the "Lincoln's ...

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

Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th ...

(AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois ...