Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14, 1865. America’s 16th president was 42 days into his second term and would ...
Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited ... written sometime during the fall and winter of 1860-61, their imagined conversation begins. The print-obsessed Whitman loved toying ...
Though Lincoln was involved with the Whig Party (which was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and his use of presidential power) earlier on his career, he switched parties becoming the first Republican ...
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In 1860, Lincoln was nominated as the presidential candidate for the Republican Party at a convention held in Chicago, at a ...
Author Ed Achorn will discuss his latest book, "The Lincoln Miracle," at 3 p.m. on April 6 at the Sudbury Grange.