A Lincoln historian appreciates getting to know the lives of three other people with Illinois roots
Free Frank McWorter rescued his family from slavery and then established a town in Illinois.
Letter shows the Lincolns as a young couple managing the typical concerns of middle-class life.
Items on loan from Springfield's African American sororities tell a century-long story of women helping women.
Art historian Mark Pohlad examines an ALPLM painting that seems to blend the Civil War, World War I and the artist's own nightmares into a single powerful image.
At the urging of a magazine "editress," Abraham Lincoln called for a day of thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November. It was a major step in making Thanksgiving the tradition we know today.
A Lincoln historian puts the spotlight on the meaning and power of the overly familiar words of the Gettysburg Address.
Abraham Lincoln unloads his frustrations to a friend as he faces mudslinging and distortions in race for Congress.
After losing to the "I Like Ike" message in 1952, Adlai Stevenson returned with a warning about treating politicians like products.
ALPLM database provides information on 9,200 Union soldiers, with digitized pictures of nearly 1,000