Lincoln News

Master Chief is coming to the small screen! Steven Spielberg announced plans for a live action television series adapting the popular 'Halo' videogame franchise.

Considered by many to be one of the most famous political Senate contests in US history, the Lincoln-Douglass debates of 1858 in Illinois, conducted over a three month period, drew huge audiences and centered on the vital issue of the survival of the Union and viability of slavery.

Our democracy is endangered. Not by the Russians, North Korea, the Iran regime, or even terrorists.

Eighth-grade students at John R. Lea Middle School had the opportunity for history to come alive during their annual Civil War Day.

Six months after winning an impressive reelection, Barack Obama finds himself in some kind of trouble - battered by semi-scandals and bombarded by foreign policy challenges he can't possibly manage.

Blue head Adam Metalo with the Smithsonian Institution Digitization Program Office holds an ABS plastic 3D print from an affordable printer.

The 1860 presidential election - which sent Abe Lincoln to the White House and stoked the fires of Secession and Civil War - is widely considered the most important in our nation's history.

Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday released a statement in favor of marriage equality in Illinois, urging the House to approve the stalled bill.

"Marching Orders," a program of Civil War music with narration using words of Abraham Lincoln, will be presented at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Great Hall at Trinity Lutheran Church, 600 S. Water St.

Our democracy is endangered. Not by the Russians, North Korea, the Iran regime, or even terrorists.

Gusty winds and an incessant locomotive horn did little to tamp down the festive mood Sunday in the Wellsville High School football stadium where hundreds of family members, students, teachers and friends gathered to watch 47 seniors pick up their diplomas.

He's compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, evoked nostalgia for John F. Kennedy, sought to emulate Ronald Reagan, praised George W. Bush, and enlisted the assistance of Bill Clinton in his 2012 re-election effort, but as his second term stumbles along, the president with whom Barack Obama finds himself being compared is Richard ... (more)

It's got to be the beard. Or perhaps the stovepipe hat . Or his poetry . Or his vampire-fighting prowess .

When John Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln , it was in an arts theater in Washington DC.

Irrational Games latest installment in the BioShock series is BioShock Infinite .

In July 1863, the 2,400 residents of Gettysburg had little time to prepare for 170,000 Confederate and Union soldiers who advanced on the town.

On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St.

EVA LONGORIA suffered an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Saturday when she accidentally flashed fans and photographers as she walked the red carpet.

Well, well, well, if it isn't multiple Oscar best actor winner Daniel Day-Lewis getting up to ... whatever it is he does when he isn't putting in seminal acting performances on the silver screen.

President Obama on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College, the country's pre-eminent historically black college, there is "no time for excuses" for this generation of African-American men and that it was time for their generation to step up professionally and in their personal lives.