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The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.
The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.
The Elgin Master Chorale is unveiling its 2025-26 season, “Voices of America.” In celebration of the United States’ ...
This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...
(Council Bluffs) -- Abraham Lincoln is yet another area softball team battling through the summer with a youthful roster. The Lynx (5-24 overall, 3-20 Missouri River Conference) have just one senior, ...
But it paid off quite well for three Abraham Lincoln High School students who attended the recent National History Day ...
Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...
Dorothy McClerren, 96, portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in her daughter’s home to share her talents with Heartland Hospice workers ...
1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...
Email news briefs and event listings to [email protected]. Mary Todd Lincoln presentation The Delmont Historical ...
One is Lincoln, the other Booth, and the two struggle and hustle to survive in this play, which ends Saturday.
A hidden vault behind Lincoln's head at Mount Rushmore holds important U.S. documents, but this secret room is closed to the public except for a lucky few.