A deed from the Roxbury estate of actor Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller is going up for auction at Wilton-based auction next month. The item is one of several items that is part of the ...

Those states with no official provision for Juneteenth include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, ...

According to a 2024 Congressional Research Service report, at least 30 states and the District of Columbia have designated ...

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In this ingenious account, biographer Hamilton (War and Peace) surveys “the warring minds and hearts” of Abraham Lincoln and Confederate commander-in-chief Jefferson Davis during the first two ...

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.

You can put him on a pedestal, like Abraham Lincoln, but the marble will have a lot more life and warmth than Davis ever did. And the arcs of their lives are much different.

There’s a theory called the Dahlgren Affair, this theory that Lincoln, possibly, Stanton, or both approved an attempt to assassinate Jefferson Davis, the Confederate President.

Jefferson Davis, right, was president of the Confederacy. ... After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Andrew Johnson became president in April 1865. Congress had adjourned in March 1865, ...

Jefferson Davis, the half-blind ex-President of the Confederate States of America, ... Davis,” Abraham Lincoln reportedly told General William Tecumseh Sherman, ...