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Bronze cents from 1909 to 1982 are 3.11g; wartime steel cents, depending on when in 1943 they were struck, are 2.69g or 2.75 g 19091942, 19441982: 95% copper, remainder tin or zinc 1943: zinc-plated steel 1982present: copper-plated zinc The Lincoln cent or Lincoln penny is a cent coin that has been struck by the United States Mint since 1909.

Staff / Katherine Frye / From left, Willa Bost, as press secretary Audrey Warren, Julius Pryor III, as President Obama, and Gene Griessman, as President Lincoln, rehearse a scene from the upcoming production of 'Lincoln's Last Debate' at The Village Church.

For Springfieldites in the Land of Lincoln, it seems that almost all the Lincoln sites are right here in Central Illinois.

For the second time in just a few weeks, President Obama has made the claim that he's not very partisan - and that, in fact, his favorite president hailed from the Republican Party.

The Founding Fathers had good reasons for explicitly barring government from inserting itself into matters of religion.

The trailer for my forthcoming book, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln , is up on YouTube, here .

The Mt. Pulaski Courthouse register signature book showed ninety-nine visitors that stopped by today to wish Wally Kautz a "Happy Birthday" and to thank him for all his years of service as Mt.

Ron Carly's used his impeccable likeness to one of the United States' fondest presidents to create quite a stir when he's out in public.

Members of the Legislature's transportation study committee submitted their recommendations to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles Tuesday afternoon.

This week in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln shared with his Cabinet a draft of what became the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that 3 million slaves would "thenceforward, and forever, be free."

South Bend's historic Lincoln carriage will roll out of town next year to spend two months on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The vehicle, which is on permanent display at Studebaker National Museum, is the carriage that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife rode to Ford's Theatre on ... (more)

In this week's Republican Address, Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, discussed the importance of bipartisan jobs bills, blaming Congressional Democrats for blocking "bill after bill."

Sometimes successful entrepreneurs must be skillful actors. But when they pull a Daniel Day-Lewis and start playing a role off the set, trouble almost inevitably follows.

By the time the next film from Steven Spielberg hits theaters, it will have been nearly three years since Lincoln hit theaters.

Abraham Lincoln's visit to Exeter in 1860 was an important chapter in the town's history and is now commemorated on a marker in front of the old Town Hall.

With six books and countless appearances to her name, Doris Kearns Goodwin is usually not at a loss for words.

In our politics today we often turn our disagreement into Manichean struggles, as if one side has all the arguments in its favor while the other has none.

Baltimore is featured tomorrow night on Comedy Central's "Drunk History" with Lutherville native Derek Waters and company re-enacting stories from the lives of Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Scott Key and Abraham Lincoln.

Amelia Rose Earhart, center, was greeted by her mom, Debborah Dale, in Oakland, Calif., on July 11 after she became the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine airplane.

"I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historic ties to the African American community," Bush said.