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Submitted photo Pictured, from left, are the four travelers Emily Geyer, Michael Budd, Tom Mack and Andrew Geyer having lunch at the Wig and Mitre.

I love a good book on U.S. history, and Doris Kearns Goodwin's latest is one of the best I've seen.

"O Say Can You See?" is a blog produced by the National Museum of American History .

You've seen glimpses of him kicking butt as elf king Thranduil in the trailer for "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies," and this weekend you can see much more of the actor as villain Ronan the Accuser in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy."

Illinois officials say budget cuts will force them to consider cutting hours at some state historic sites after the Labor Day holiday.

The Erie Canal Park in Camillus will be celebrating "The Erie Canal and the Civil War", on Saturday, August 9, from 10-4.

An archaeological dig in Bloomington has uncovered part of a courthouse where Abraham Lincoln once worked.

There was a lot of hoopla surrounding Allentown native Dane DeHaan when he played Harry Osborn in " The Amazing Spider-Man 2." The film, which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray Aug. 19, picked up $786 million at the box office and is the sixth-highest grossing picture of the year.

Numbers released by the Illinois Office of Tourism indicates the Springfield area continues to be a big draw for visitors.

Photo by Daniel Free/New Jersey Herald - East Stroudsburg University's Matt Tobin, a former Hopatcong High School basketball standout, instructs a group of fifth- through eighth-graders on July 14 at the B.T. Basketball Camp in Sparta.

"'Attorneys trained in this way will be able to be average people,' Ms. Orsi said, 'not just because they don't have debt, but because law school tells us that we're really special.'

Once upon a time, Democrats were the party of slavery, states' rights, secession and nullification.

The city will host a Saturday arts festival, a Sunday band concert and a Monday lecture on Lincoln.

It was a day to tout Central Florida's triumph and UConn dual dominance and the undoubtedly successful inaugural AAC campaign because, well, why the hell not? It was a day for commissioner Mike Aresco to puff his chest, a day to admit "I do not care for the Power Five designation."

These terms -- duty, ability, and rights -- are often conflated, as a result of French and American influences.

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An unpublished letter from Abraham Lincoln dated 1860 reveals the future president as a "nervous" man not entirely comfortable with his budding fame.

Archaeologists excavating near the McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington have unearthed part of the footprint of the 1836 courthouse where experts said Abraham Lincoln worked as an attorney.

Prairie Fruits Farm earned its reputation by producing goat's-milk cheese and gelato.

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