Visitors to a small log cabin in Kentucky are right to ask: Is it true that Abraham Lincoln slept here? On the eve of Lincoln's 209th birthday tomorrow, Brook Silva-Braga has the answer: Professor ...

Editor's Note: This story, originally posted in 2022, is being brought back as part of our 2023 Winter Coverage. On the property where he was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, lies the first memorial ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky on this day 205 years ago: Feb. 12, 1809. Just not this one-room log cabin. Yet this is the cabin enshrined in a formal memorial at the ...

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HODGENVILLE, KY – The 56 steps, cut from pink granite, ascend to a neoclassical temple that seems plucked from ancient Greece and deposited on a Kentucky hilltop. One for each year of President ...