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Abraham Lincoln's speech at Dayton's Old Courthouse: Did he get 'utmost attention' or was he 'not a...
Dayton Daily News, Ohio via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoApr. 25—Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate ...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
Convention of Abraham Lincoln presenters in Dayton this week
Dayton Daily News· 4 days agoOn Sept. 17, 1859, Lincoln, who wouldn’t be elected until the year after, made an appearance in...
Robert Furnas: Meet the Troy native who helped make Arbor Day a national holiday
Dayton Daily News, Ohio via Yahoo News· 41 minutes agoApr. 26—Robert Furnas, born in Troy on May 5, 1824, became a Civil War officer and one of first governors of Nebraska before helping originate Arbor Day across the country. Early years Furnas ...
Today in History
The Ponca City News· 5 hours agoToday is the 117th day of 2024 and the 39th day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was killed by Union troops in Virginia.
Review | Erik Larson vividly captures the struggle for Fort Sumter
Washington Post· 2 hours agoA century or so ago, in an era of racial denialism, historians groped for any explanation besides...
200 baby names that start with 'A' for boys and girls
TODAY via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoOf...
Doris Kearns Goodwin and husband Dick Goodwin lived, observed, created and chronicled the 1960s
Los Angeles Times· 2 days ago“An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” isn’t precisely the book that...
Lynx claim city tennis crown
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 3 days agoAbraham Lincoln boys tennis claimed the city title after sweeping the No. 1 brackets and taking first in two other singles brackets. “It’s been a couple...
Today in History: Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster
Chicago Tribune· 6 hours agoIn 1607, English colonists went ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Virginia, on an expedition to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere. In 1865, John Wilkes ...