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Like most middle-class women of her time, Mary Lincoln relied on hired help to manage her household. These women worked and sometimes lived in her house, cleaning, cooking, and caring for the children alongside her. Who were these women? What were their duties? What was their experience like within the household? What were the Lincolns experiences living and working intimately with a cross-section of society that they might never have encountered otherwise? Drawing on letters, reminiscences, and county records, University of Illinois at Springfield's Sangamon Experience Director and Curator, will examine the nature of domestic service in the Lincoln household in Springfield, Illinois, to attempt to answer these questions. In doing so this program aspires not only to establish a social and cultural context for the Lincolns’ experience but to flesh out the experiences of working-class women who are often on the margins or outright invisible to history.

Streaming: Looking for Lincoln’s Facebook Page and Looking for Lincoln’s YouTube Page

Andrew Carnegie’s pipe organ legacy will be the topic of the Sangamon County Historical Society program at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 21 at the City of Springfield’s Lincoln Library, Carnegie Room North, 326 South Seventh St. The event is free and open to the public.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is throwing a birthday party, and you’re invited! In honor of Lincoln’s birthday, museum admission will be free Saturday, February 11 and Sunday, February 12, the birthday boy himself will visit on both days, and we’ll celebrate Lincoln’s love of reading by collecting books for children during theLincoln’s4Lincoln Read-a-Thon.

Artistic approaches to looking at history will be the topic of the Sangamon County Historical Society program at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 17 at the City of Springfield’s Lincoln Library, Carnegie Room North, 326 South Seventh St. The event is free and open to the public.

Union Baptist Church, 1405 E. Monroe, Springfield, IL 4:00 pm, Saturday, December 31, 2022
A celebration of December 31, 1862, when enslaved people waited for the Emancipation Proclamation to be signed by President Lincoln and to take effect the next morning freeing 3.5 million enslaved people in the secessionist Confederate states.
Program Presented by Mr. Robert Davis
Sponsored by the Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum
A Springfield First Night Event