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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 ...
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Brown professor’s book seeks to reexamine endpoint of the Civil War
“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...
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McHistory: Abraham Lincoln in his own words
It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...
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 ...
Abraham Lincoln’s blood-stained leather gloves are headed for auction
Abraham Lincoln’s blood-stained leather gloves are headed for auction - Auctioneers in Chicago hope to get $4m for 140 items owned by Civil War president ...
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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 ...
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.
The Lebanon Reporter12d
Abraham Lincoln reenactor brings history to life in Sheridan
The students of Sheridan Elementary School were in for a unique educational experience recently, as Abraham Lincoln himself ...
The Durango Herald9d
After years of neglect, an Illinois village with ties to Abraham Lincoln is getting a refresh
PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem.