Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky and grew up in Indiana. The youngest child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Lincoln had one sister three years his ...

Phillip Stone, a Harrisonburg lawyer who has served as president of Bridgewater College and Sweet Briar College, holds an ...

who raised the Lincoln children with love and affection. The Lincolns moved again, this time to Illinois, when Abraham was 21. Shortly after, Abraham settled in New Salem, Illinois, where he ...

Why did Abraham Lincoln pardon a turkey? In general, Lincoln was a big softie, especially when it came to his kids. He and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln had four children, two of whom died before the ...