when seven southern states seceded from the United States between December 1860 and February 1861. The walk-up to Lincoln’s first inauguration was also dramatic, and some aspects of what was ...

A new book celebrates the work of John Wood, the country’s first federal photographer Adrienne Lundgren Lincoln inauguration, March 4, 1861 Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress ...

Complementing this deeply personal text is the iconic Lincoln Bible, a velvet-bound artifact first used in 1861 to inaugurate ... three times since Lincoln's inauguration: by President Obama ...

A war centered on slavery, on the insistence of Southerners in “wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces,” was inevitable in 1861 ... Lincoln’s speech and Monday’s ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what ...

have been applied to countless situations since Abraham Lincoln first uttered them in 1861. Not all inaugural addresses achieve greatness. Some have been quite forgettable. But each of them has ...

gelatin silver print, hinged to the original two-tone mount, with annotation and date 'Lincoln and Hamlin Inaugural March 4th 1861' in an old hand in ink on the mount, framed Subscribe now to view ...

Abraham Lincoln stopped in Alliance on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15, 1861, at a time when he was about to become president. His remarks to those gathered at ...

LAKE CITY — A bronze tablet mounted on red granite will commemorate Abraham Lincoln's 1861 visit to Lake City. The tablet will tell the story of Lincoln's stop at the town's rail depot enroute ...

He will also use the Lincoln Bible, which was first used for President Lincoln’s 1861 swearing-in and has ... and Trump used it in his 2017 inauguration. Vice President-elect JD Vance will ...