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A previously unknown and unpublished Civil War-era letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been acquired by the Raab Collection — and is being sold for $85,000. Here are details.
Female spy balanced moral conviction and risky clandestine work to support the Union during the Civil War. ... (Getty Images) ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S POSSESSIONS SELL FOR MILLIONS AS BLOODSTAINED GLOVES ...
In “Abraham Lincoln’s Unchurched Faith” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 9), Allen Guelzo draws conclusions about Lincoln’s church attitudes without noting the president’s experience at the New ...
A previously unpublished letter by Abraham Lincoln that offers insight on his management of the Civil War sold Wednesday for $85,000. The letter, dated Aug. 19, 1861—during the first year of the ...
Photo of Abraham Lincoln taken by Alexander Gardner during the Civil War in 1862. | Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain At 6 foot 4 inches, Lincoln remains the tallest president in U.S. history. And ...
Documents from the National Archive show that then President Abraham Lincoln pardoned one of President Joe Biden's ancestors during the Civil War.
Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates today: Newspapers during the Civil War often presented starkly ...
10 key personalities of the Civil War Abraham Lincoln: The 16th President of the United States, Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.
Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War in “Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents,” Nigel Hamilton alternates between the two men in assessing their actions as commanders in chief.
Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates today: Newspapers during the Civil War often presented starkly ...