In today's look at local history, we meet a McLean County woman who once sat on Abraham Lincoln's knee and explore whether ...

“The funeral can be a way to connect someone with the past,” Kondik said. “After (President John F. Kennedy) was assassinated, Jackie Kennedy wanted the White House to look the way it had when Abraham ...

The tradition, however, was largely altered back in 1865 during the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln. “It was the first time that the President's body was moved by train," Michael Shymanski ...

the day of Carter's funeral in Washington, D.C. The tradition, which began with a one-day government shutdown following Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, is one of many ways the United ...