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Two Civil War Books Win Pulitzer Prizes in Fiction and History

On May 5 the announcement came of Pulitzer Prizes. Two books largely dealing with the Civil War, won awards. The winner for Fiction was James…

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Lincoln Return Visit Gettysburg Pennsylvania

There are a half-dozen statues of Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg. It is no wonder, because Gettysburg was where the public recognized that the Union was…

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History Washington, D.C.

Most of my readers have been to the Smithsonian American History Museum in Washington at 1300 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560. I have been…

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Look at the New Museum Being Built Under the Lincoln Memorial

In 2023, the National Park Service began construction under the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to transform the space beneath Lincoln’s statue into a museum. We…

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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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