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Lincoln and the Effort to Send Freed Slaves to an Island Off of Haiti

The Washington Post has an article this weekend on a disturbing effort to transplant freed slaves to an island off of Haiti and Lincoln’s involvement….

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Lincoln Cottage Was Lincoln’s Summer Home Photo Tour

The summer of 1864 was one of the bloodiest in American history. Against a background of the horrible battles of the last year of the…

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Stamford Lincoln

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Jon Meacham On How Growing Up Near Civil War Battlefields Helped Him Become a Historian

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jon Meacham has a new book out on Abe Lincoln. Today’s New York Times has an article on how Meacham came…

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Abe Lincoln and Frederick Douglass Statues Photo Tour National Harbor, Maryland

Last week I attended a conference at National Harbor in Maryland, just a few miles from Washington, D.C. It is a popular Holiday Season destination…

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Photo Tour of NYU’s Outdoor Exhibit of the Black Soldiers of the USCT and Their Families

The Kimmel Windows Gallery at New York University has a new exhibit; The Black Civil War Soldier, that is on view until Feb. 28, 2023 along LaGuardia…

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Researcher Presents Evidence of Where Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Actually Took Place

Here is a Lincoln at Gettysburg story so big that it made the New York Times. November 19 is the 149th Anniversary of the Gettysburg…

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Ten Years Ago Movie “Lincoln” Showed the Gettysburg Address

November 19 is Dedication Day in Gettysburg, the anniversary of the the day in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln came to Gettysburg to deliver his famous…

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Photo Tour of the Lincoln Statue in Yonkers, New York

After Lincoln’s assassination many localities wanted an outdoor sculpture of the martyred president. As far as I can tell, the first that was actually unveiled…

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Remembering the Civil War at Saco, Maine Memorial

As many of you know I was fortunate enough to vacation in Maine this summer. Many of the towns and cities along the coast there…

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