Things Have Changed

On this date in 1860, Abraham Lincoln spoke in New York City at Cooper Union Hall.  Lincoln had come to national attention through his serie...

Today marks 160 years since the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg and of President Abraham Lincoln's little speech.  Her...

On April 4, 1864 Abraham Lincoln wrote the letter below to Albert G Hodges.  The letter expresses the president's beliefs about the mor...

On the 214th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, we present the President's gracious letter to General Ulysses Grant on the s...

( Arnold Bertonneau ) On the afternoon of March 3, 1864, two Creole mixed-race Louisianians from New Orleans, Jean Baptiste Roudanez and E ...

Driving on I-70 today across southern Illinois, we saw a sign announcing the presence of the oldest existing Illinois State House in the lit...

78 year old Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham, is helped up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for its dedication ceremony, May 30, 1922. R...

It is not often I come across a story about Abraham Lincoln I've not heard before, but it happened this morning while reading Barton Swa...

When Louis Armstrong was on the road, which was most of the time, he carried with him a taping system that was high-tech for its era.  It ...

On the occasion of the 211th anniversary of the birth of the Great Emancipator . . . From speech given on July 10, 1858 by Abraham Lincoln...

Yesterday was the 210th anniversary of the birth of our 16th president.   After serving one term in Congress as a member of the Whig party...

You may recognize the feller I hung out with last night (THC is the guy on the right!). James Hayney has portrayed our 16th President fo...

How I wish the birthdays of our two greatest presidents were still national holidays. On the 109th anniversary of his birth this link tak...

Slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in the Senate on April 8, 1864, the House on January 31, 1865 (...

  The February 12, 1949 edition of the Stamford (CT) Advocate carried nine headlines above the front page fold.  Illustrating the importa...

Paid for by freed slaves, the Emancipation Memorial, more popularly known as the Freedmen's Monument, was dedicated in Lincoln Park on C...