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The Ponca City News· 2 days 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.
The Lincoln Funeral Train: A somber journey that left behind an historic memory - Trains
Trains.com· 7 days agoThe assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, sent a Civil War-battered country into 20 days of national mourning. At the center of it all was ...
Cole Escola’s Play ‘Oh, Mary!’ to Open on Broadway After Sold-Out Off Broadway Run
Variety via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMary Todd Lincoln had grand ambitions of being a cabaret star, at least according to playwright Cole...
Detroit's Civil War history, uncovered - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 1 day agoIn 1863, as the Civil War raged on, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation...
Viola Davis And Husband Team Up To Launch Inclusion-Focused Book Publishing Company That Tells...
Black Enterprise· 4 days agoViola Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, partnered with author/publisher Lavaille Lavette to...
'To His Core, In His Bones': John Legend Gets Blunt In Message For 'Racist' Trump
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 6 days agoTrump has claimed that he’s done more for Black Americans than “any other president since Abraham ...
Steve VanderVeen: The Klandermans and the beginning of Borculo
The Holland Sentinel via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThree years earlier, Lincoln had signed the Homestead Act, which gave current and future citizens...
Doris Kearns Goodwin and husband Dick Goodwin lived, observed, created and chronicled the 1960s
Los Angeles Times· 4 days ago“An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” isn’t precisely the book that...
Brent Hatch didn’t get enough signatures to qualify for Republican primary. What does that mean for...
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoThe Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate in Utah include mountaineer Caroline Gleich, Archie...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoCredit - Getty Images A white family in Atlanta, Georgia today has 46 times as much wealth as a Black family; a racial wealth gap that is exactly the...
