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Military Book Review Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium
Strategy Page· 14 hours agoIn many American homes during the nineteenth century the King James Bible was the only book, and its influence on language and literacy was enormous. A work of meticulous scholarship, this book ...
Inside Biden’s Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony honoring Black luminaries, including the...
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoIn a packed East Room, President Biden calls the class of recipients ‘incredible people’ whose...
Lincoln’s Civil War order to block Confederate ports donated to Illinois by governor and first lady
KTVI via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIllinois' governor and first lady have donated a key Civil War document signed by Abraham Lincoln to...
Days Gone By: Walking in Lincoln's footsteps in Vermilion County
The Danville Commercial-News· 15 hours agoThe Abraham Lincoln tour group spent the afternoon at the Vermilion County Museum in Danville last week. Following their lunch, they were given a tour of ...
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Book Reporter· 17 hours agoOn November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the ...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to Springfield museum
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoThe Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum introduced a new item dating back to the Civil...
Review: 'Devil in the White City' author Erik Larson returns with 'The Demon of Unrest'
New Hampshire Union Leader· 1 day agoThere may be a tendency to think of the war in the same breath as Abraham Lincoln, but Larson, whose...
What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoOn June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people...
How Lincoln dealt with depression and found greatness
The Holland Sentinel· 2 days agoWhat do you credit President Lincoln with accomplishing? President Lincoln consistently ranks in polls as the greatest president of all time. According to the Smithsonian Institution, “Lincoln's ...
What the 'Dawn of the Civil War' can tell us about today's acrimonious politics
NPR· 3 days agoMy guest, journalist and historian Erik Larson, has a new book closely examining the period between the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 ...