A behind-the-scenes look at the 2 weeks leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter: Part 1
Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.
The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
Warner on Trump’s ‘America first’ policy: ‘Quickly becoming America alone’
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he believes President Trump’s “America ...
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Reenactors portray a controversial Town Meeting vote in 1775
As part of the recognition of the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War, seven Lincolnites in period ...
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