Then and Now: Spokane’s Lincoln statue erected in time to honor living Civil War veteran
Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ...
New Salem, an Illinois village with ties to Abraham Lincoln, getting a refresh after years of neglect
The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...
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Mississippi State University commemorates 160th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination with lecture, exhibit
Hosted by Williams Collection of Lincolniana archivist Kaelynn Edmondson and Susannah J. Ural, the Frank and Virginia ...
Before working with Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase was an antislavery attorney in Cincinnati
Before Salmon P. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury and Supreme Court chief justice, he was a Cincinnati attorney defending fugitive slave cases.
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MSU Libraries to host lecture, exhibit on Lincoln’s assassination
Libraries will offer the public a chance to step back in time and learn more about the assassination of President Abraham ...
Alec Baldwin claims America is in a 'pre-Civil War' environment after watching PBS miniseries
Actor Alec Baldwin took to Instagram on Tuesday night to inform his followers that he believes America is in a 'pre-Civil war ...
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A behind-the-scenes look at the 2 weeks leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter: Part 1
About the only thing the North and South agreed on was that neither wanted to start the American Civil War. If President Abraham Lincoln surrendered Fort Sumter, as South Carolina demanded ...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES: New Civil War book hits close to home
On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my ...
OPINION | Claybourn: Lincoln and the limits of the executive
Abraham Lincoln changed the course of history not through brute assertion of power but by wrestling with its limits.