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Lincoln’s Civil War order to block Confederate ports donated to Illinois by Pritzker, First Lady
WGN Chicago via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union’s military...
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...
Abraham Lincoln's Civil War order to block Confederate ports donated to Illinois
ABC News 4 Charleston· 5 days agoThe document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of...
McCumber's winner leads Lady Lynx to upset of Titans
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 16 hours agoAubrey McCumber's 49th minute goal proved to be the winner as Abraham Lincoln upset Lewis Central at The Wick Friday night. The Lynx (4-8) opened the...
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 the 'Dawn of the Civil War' can tell us about today's acrimonious politics
NPR· 4 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 ...
How Lincoln dealt with depression and found greatness
The Holland Sentinel· 3 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 ...
How Lincoln dealt with depression and found greatness
The Holland Sentinel via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThat is, according to historian and author of ‘Abraham Lincoln: Seldom Told Stories’, Warren Bull....
Obama’s doing the delegate thing
Politico· 5 days agoGood Tuesday morning, Illinois. Gov. JB Pritzker and first lady MK Pritzker are announcing a “historic document donation” to the Abraham Lincoln...
Ill. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and wife donate key Civil War document to Lincoln presidential library
Chicago Tribune· 4 days agoFollowing the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the...