In 1837, the 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln arrived in Springfield, Illinois, to found a law practice. Almost immediately, he struck up a friendship with a 23-year-old shopkeeper named Joshua Speed.

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...

Abraham Lincoln gave the image as a memento to a ... He promised one copy to a shopkeeper who had been severely injured a day earlier while testing a cannon to be fired during the rally.

When Harvard professor John Stauffer published “Giants,” his dual biography of Abraham Lincoln ... that the young Lincoln had a close, long-term relationship with a shopkeeper and future ...

The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln ...

The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President ... of trades including stints as a postmaster, surveyor and shopkeeper, according to History.com. As his political career took ...