The Civil War ... The election of Abraham Lincoln, a vocal opponent of slavery’s enlargement, become a turning point. His victory brought about the secession of Southern states, which regarded his ...

This episode originally aired on May 2, 2024. What lessons can the five months leading up to the Civil War teach us about the political landscape of today? A new book delves into that short span of ...

The Constitution of Confederal States was officially adopted on March 11, 1861. Federal forts in the seceding states were overtaken by Confederate troops when ... the Civil War continues to ...

In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1847, and the following year he found the opportunity to combine ...

For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War hangs in the ... s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their ...

Complementing this deeply personal text is the iconic Lincoln Bible, a velvet-bound artifact first used in 1861 to inaugurate Abraham Lincoln as the 16th President of the United States.

New this week The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War ... If a book is not in a rank since ...

President Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation, American... President Abraham Lincoln writes the Emancipation Proclamation, issued September 22, 1862, freeing all slaves as of January 1, 1963, ...

Hesperian College — forerunner institution to Chapman University — is founded in Woodland, Calif., on the date of Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration. The timing reflects the founders’ connection to ...

Bannon suggested Ken Burns’ classic documentary on the Civil War, thinking it would be ... “A lot of people wanted Lincoln to settle in 1861 and they were all Confederates or ambivalent ...

In 1861, Lincoln’s inaugural appeal to the South to remain in the Union, as southern states were seceding, was conciliatory, a desperate attempt to avoid a civil war. Lincoln stated, in words ...