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Days Gone By: Walking in Lincoln's footsteps in Vermilion County
The Danville Commercial-News· 6 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 ...
Military Book Review Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium
Strategy Page· 6 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 ...
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Book Reporter· 6 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 ...
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...
Review: 'Devil in the White City' author Erik Larson returns with 'The Demon of Unrest'
New Hampshire Union Leader· 16 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...
Inside Biden’s Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony honoring Black luminaries, including the...
theGrio via AOL· 1 hour agoIn a packed East Room, President Biden calls the class of recipients ‘incredible people’ whose...
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...
McCumber's winner leads Lady Lynx to upset of Titans
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 5 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...
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 ...