Essay: The Civil War taught us to fight for the right to be wrong
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 7th, 2010 5:37 am by HL
Essay: The Civil War taught us to fight for the right to be wrong
Twice before, the United States has celebrated major anniversaries of the Civil War, and twice before, a nervous sense of reticence governed the events. Fifty years after the guns fell silent at Appomattox, there were still living Civil War veterans, racial antagonism was virulent throughout the …
Before he became the national icon, Lincoln was a shrewd candidate
T he candidate stood uneasily on the rostrum, his black suit still creased from the valise he had carried on the three-day train trip from Springfield, Ill. As Abraham Lincoln began the speech intended to launch his presidential campaign, his voice was strained and piercing, his accent backwoods….
President-elect Lincoln arrived to a less-than-monumental Washington
On the cool autumn Tuesday that Abraham Lincoln would be elected president, the Washington Evening Star reprinted on its front page a dispatch from a British reporter covering a recent visit by the prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII.
