In New Salem, Lincoln encountered the religious and the atheist, the learned and the illiterate. It's where he ran a store into bankruptcy, went off to war, served as postmaster, was offered a job as ...

“Rosie” was the first feminist I ever knew, if feminism meant sticking up for liberties unfairly denied to women. She grew up ...

Local author David McGrath pays tribute to his late older sister, who he describes as going toe-to-toe with her brothers — ...