On This Day: Americans elect Lincoln to second term

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was admitted to the union as the 41st state. In ...
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Fighting fascists in Spain: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Members of the XV International Brigade (aka the Abraham Lincoln Brigade) returning to the US on the French Liner Champlain, July 1938. The men of the brigade fought for the Spanish Republic in the ...

Abraham Lincoln letter seeking job for Black friend and valet now on display at presidential museum

An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...
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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 ...
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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 ...