The Bulletin

Historical column: President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation from October 3, 1863

I do invite my fellow-citizens to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving, ...
Opinion

President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in commemoration of ...
The Vindicator

TTH lecture looks at Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, will ...
Mississippi State University

The Frank and Virginia Williams Lecture on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies

Susannah Ural, the Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies, will host the 2024 Williams Lecture and speak with two of the nation's leading Civil War historians ...
CNN

Seven Civil War stories your teacher never told you

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...
Daily Herald

Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices and ...
Mississippi State University

Civil War scholars to lead Williams lecture on Lincoln, 13th Amendment next month

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Noted Civil War experts Brandi C. Brimmer and Judith Giesberg are leading a discussion on the 16th president and the amendment abolishing slavery during the eighth annual Frank and ...