Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the ...

Hosted and narrated by Ramsey Lewis, Abraham Lincoln's Illinois is a series of seven one-minute segments of Lincoln's footsteps in Illinois that will air on WTTW11 and WTTW HD during the months of ...

(AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois ...