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A previously unknown and unpublished letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been recovered for the first time. The Civil War-era letter, which was part of a private collection for over a ...
By Johnny Diaz and Christine Hauser A recently discovered letter written by President Abraham Lincoln that offers a glimpse into his thinking during the early part of the Civil War sold this week ...
This 2024 focus on the Civil War started when former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose state was the first to secede before Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration all those years ago, failed last ...
Abraham Lincoln pardoned President Biden's great-great-grandfather after a late-night Civil War-era brawl, documents reportedly show, linking the two presidents across the centuries. The court ...
An 1860 lithograph of a young Abraham Lincoln. | Wikipedia The post Historian says Lincoln won Civil War with ‘the idea of ...
When Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. furnished the Oval Office after stepping into the presidency, he included a bust and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln ... before the Civil War, was hired by the ...
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...
Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University ...
Even as we confront political vindictiveness and policy decisions without apparent logic or grounding in reality, having had Abraham Lincoln as ... by a horrendous civil war.