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160 years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.
History Today: When US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head
US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...
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Abraham Lincoln’s bloody gloves from assassination night for sale
A pair of gloves carried by President Lincoln on the night he was shot could sell for over $1 million. Read about the Chicago ...
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Mississippi State University commemorates 160th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination with lecture, exhibit
Hosted by Williams Collection of Lincolniana archivist Kaelynn Edmondson and Susannah J. Ural, the Frank and Virginia ...
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New Salem, an Illinois village with ties to Abraham Lincoln, getting a refresh after years of neglect
Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic ...
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Abraham Lincoln’s blood-stained leather gloves are headed for auction
American history buffs will soon be able to bid on a set of 140 rare artifacts that formerly belonged to President Abraham Lincoln ... in-chief during the US Civil War. His victory kept the ...
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Brown professor’s book seeks to reexamine endpoint of the Civil War
“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...
Then and Now: Spokane’s Lincoln statue erected in time to honor living Civil War veteran
Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ...