Three additional renowned Lincoln authors and historians will highlight the free Benjamin P. Thomas Symposium the following day, Friday, February 13, which will feature discussions on An America Worth Saving, the Battle for Emancipation, and Lincoln the Peacemaker.

Jonathan Reyman joins Community Voices to discuss his new book Pueblo Bonita and Chaco Canyon Revisited, his time at the Illinois State Museum, and his love of anthropology and archeology.

Christina Shutt highlights artifacts from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in new book, exhibit.

The battle amid a coal strike in Macoupin County is regarded as a pivotal moment in national labor history and the Illinois coal wars.

The exhibit opened Sept. 18, 2025, at the Lincoln Library, Springfield's Public Library (directions/hours) as "Radio that Listens to You: 50 Years of NPR Illinois." It will run through May 2026. Michel Martin, NPR Morning Edition co-host, helped open the exhibit along with current and former staff, volunteers, students, donors, and friends (see slide show).

Springfield artist Mary Frances shares the work and history behind her exhibit about the east side's People's Bank of Springfield.

The museum has welcomed approximately 6 million visitors, preserving and sharing Lincoln’s legacy.

A new book details correspondence — letters long assumed to have been lost or destroyed -– that shed light on the nature of her illness as well as the nature of her relationships with the few friends and family she had left by that time.

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

In new book, Mrs. Lincoln’s own words offer insight into her sometimes tortured mind