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Review: 'Devil in the White City' author Erik Larson returns with 'The Demon of Unrest'
New Hampshire Union Leader· 6 hours agoThere may be a tendency to think of the war in the same breath as Abraham Lincoln, but Larson, whose...
Lincoln's Civil War order to block Confederate ports donated to Illinois by governor and first lady
San Francisco Chronicle· 4 days agoThe document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to Springfield museum
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum introduced a new item dating back to the Civil...
Erik Larson vividly captures the struggle for Fort Sumter
The Day· 1 day agoA century or so ago, in an era of racial denialism, historians groped for any explanation besides slavery to define the war’s origins. Half a century later, in the aftermath of the civil rights ...
What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 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 ...
PASTOR'S PEN: Our National Day of Prayer
Goshen News· 6 hours agoOver the years, U.S. presidents such as Abraham Lincoln have emphasized our national need of praying to the Almighty. President Harry S. Truman...
Lewis Central tops Girls City Meet at Whispering Woods; Reed medalist
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 12 hours agoLewis Central won Thursday's girls golf city meet at Whispering Woods, and Kate Reed won individual...
Obama’s doing the delegate thing
Politico· 4 days agoGood Tuesday morning, Illinois. Gov. JB Pritzker and first lady MK Pritzker are announcing a “historic document donation” to the Abraham Lincoln...
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 ...