Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is doubtless one of the greatest speeches in world history. Short yet poignant, the speech delivered ...

Although Meyer Frank was a National Review colleague of William F. Buckley, who loathed Murray Rothbard, Frank admired ...

Donald Trump may have crossed a new line but he isn’t the only potty-mouthed president, a tradition that dates all the way ...

A new bust of a young, clean-shaven Abraham Lincoln was unveiled at the East Peoria City Council meeting. Local artist Morgan Elser created the bust, depicting Lincoln before he grew his iconic beard.

In May 1865, the national government threw itself a parade. It had been more than a month since the rebellion in defense of ...

Anti-alcohol movements in this country have been with us for decades. Some historians say they may stem from religious ...

On May 29, 1856, Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech in Bloomington that would become lost to history. A mural honoring the speech was unveiled 169 years later to the day downtown Thursday evening by ...

This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth. Here's what to know about the holiday and why' it's celebrated.

Reports emerged of people hiding in cellars, fleeing their homes, grabbing guns for self-protection, or even dying of a heart attack. Newspapers at the time (bear in mind, they had a motif to ...

In many ways, the story of a bifurcated America is told, metaphorically, through “A Tale of Two Cities,” Los Angeles and ...

A recent Lincoln East graduate was among thousands of people who fled the National Speech and Debate Tournament in Des Moines ...

Lincoln surrounded himself with strong, capable people. Lincoln assembled a “team of rivals” in his cabinet, which had former ...