The Homestead Act was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20th, 1862 and is now approaching its 160-year anniversary. “I think without the Homestead Act and without as many different ...

Hutchinson might be hundreds of miles from the Land of Lincoln, but there are good reasons to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birth on this day 200 years ago. Is it because our 16th president ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

The Homestead Act of 1862 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. This act had huge impacts ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... He kept his promise and issued the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year’s Day in 1863. In the Homestead Act of 1862, Lincoln ...

Rep. Dean Urdahl, Minnesota’s Commissioner to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and Rep. Paul Gardner have announced plans to observe the 200th anniversary of President ...