According to Glinski, Mordecai Lincoln Sr., born in 1657, was a son of Samuel. A blacksmith, he purchased land and rights to ...

Quintanilla Jr. was an executive producer on the 1997 film “Selena,” in which he was portrayed by Edward James Olmos.

Writing to a lawyer, the founding editor of The New York Times conveyed his vast respect for President Abraham Lincoln.

When Gov. JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker visited the pope in Rome on Nov. 19, they gave the pontiff a gift: a hand-drawn self-portrait by Yesenia Diaz, who’s incarcerated downstate.

From a genuine abolition point of view, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent, but measuring him by the sentiment of his country--a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to discuss--he ...

Doris Keons Goodwin is an American journalist and political commentator. She has worked at the White House and taught about the presidency at Harvard University. Goodwin has written several ...

“Loving Lincoln” encompasses the women he befriended, defended in divorce actions, those who wrote to seek pardons and government offices for their husbands, writers like Ida Tarbell, Ruth Painter ...

Kelli Simpkins, left, plays a teacher instructing young Abraham Lincoln (Brandon Dial) in Berkshire Theatre Group’s production of “Abe Lincoln in Illinois.” Simpkins plays Lincoln in his 40s in the ...

Judge David Davis was instrumental in Abraham Lincoln’s presidential nomination. David Davis, the Supreme Court justice, U.S. senator, and campaign manager for Abraham Lincoln, was not a very good ...

It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of his time and character. Lincoln himself didn't write much about his life, so ...