A central Illinois family is rebuilding after a tree that traces back to Abraham Lincoln's funeral fell onto their Civil War-era home. According to local historian John Alexander, the town of ...

The tree towered over the home ... house took the acorn from Oakridge Cemetery in Springfield on the day of Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral. “The woman who lived here in the home in 1865, when ...

This, no doubt, is true of any really great statesman, but it was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln. As a tree may be known by its fruits, so may his growing strength, his ripening sagacity and ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived ... and Lincoln teased him about stealing some figs off a White House tree. His father took him to see Lincoln's body at ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

“It began at Bloomington Illinois — the little county seat with tree-skirted streets on a ... During the period of 1849 to 1860 Abraham Lincoln spent more time in Bloomington than any other ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...