The Abraham Lincoln Association invites all history buffs for a day of learning and mingling with nationally-renowned scholars and fellow enthusiasts Saturday, June 17 at Cantigny Park in Wheaton. The ...
OLIVE HILL, Ky. -- Lincoln's Logs, a reconstruction of Abraham Lincoln's log cabin home at Carter Caves, was dedicated Saturday, Nov. 28, after nearly a year of hard work. A good crowd trekked out to ...
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On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth fatally shot Abraham Lincoln as he watched a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC. With that shot Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, damaged the South for ...
Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...
Historians generally treat Reconstruction as an era whose aspiration, drama and importance are confined to America alone. And little wonder: In the decade after the Civil War, the U.S. embarked on a ...
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