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Podcast: Author George Saunders on His Novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” About Lincoln After the Death of His Son

A novel about Lincoln was ranked as one of the best books of the 21st Century by the New York Times. Here is the Book…

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Abraham Lincoln Statue at Gettysburg Visitors Center

You would expect Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg and I am sure many readers recall seeing Lincoln downtown in this Civil War city. That statue, which…

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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan

Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan published by Bloomsbury Publishing (2024) I have been very…

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Abraham Lincoln Statue at New-York Historical Society

One of the most photographed statues of Abraham Lincoln is the recently erected Lincoln at the New York Historical Society. While it is frequently photographed…

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NY Times on Why Lincoln’s Assassination Has Been So Rarely Reenacted at Ford’s Theater

Rebecca Ritzel has a new article in the New York Times on why movies don’t show Lincoln’s Assassination filmed in Ford’s Theater. Are are some…

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Study the End of the Civil War and Start of Reconstruction With South Carolina School Children Circa 1918

I wanted to look at what South Carolina school children learned about the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in the early 20th Century by…

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Podcast: Harold Holzer Talks About His New Book on Lincoln and the Immigrants

Gerry Prokopowicz, host of Civil War Talk Radio, interviews Harold Holzer, author of “Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration.” The discussion…

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Lincoln’s Handwritten Copy of the Preliminary Emancipation on Display at NY State Museum in Albany Until March 3, 2024

I went to the New York State Museum in Albany today. I had heard that the museum was displaying its copy of the Preliminary Emancipation…

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Which Civil War/Reconstruction Presidents Rate Highest According to Historians?

The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey has published the results of its most recent survey conducted at the end of 2023. The survey began…

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“Mystic Lincoln” Statue in Jersey City’s Lincoln Park

I know a fair amount about the Civil War and Reconstruction monuments that I visit long before I go to photograph them. I started this…

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