By Linda Goin on 15 April 2009
Today in 1865, Lincoln was pronounced dead after John Wilkes Booth shot him in the back of the head while the president, first lady Mary Todd Lincoln and another couple attended a performance at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. After Lincoln was carried to a house across the street from the theater, he was pronounced dead at 7:22 a.m. on the 15th.
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By Linda Goin on 14 April 2009
On this day in 1965, Egbert D. Price, Associated Press Writer, had a piece published about the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death in the Petersburg Progress-Index.
Posted in Today in History | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Ford Theatre, John Wilkes Booth
By Staff Reports on 1 April 2009
[ 4 April 2009 to 5 April 2009. ] Retrace Abraham Lincoln’s steps on his visit to Richmond in April 1865, just a few days after the city’s fall to Union forces.
Posted in Calendar, People, Places | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, bicentennial, Richmond History Center
By Staff Reports on 10 March 2009
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History announced it has found a “secret” message engraved in President Abraham Lincoln’s watch by a watchmaker who was repairing it in 1861 when news of the attack on Fort Sumter reached Washington, D.C.
Posted in People, Things | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Fort Sumter, President of the United States
By Linda Goin on 4 March 2009
On this day in 1861, President James Buchanan and President-elect Abraham Lincoln left the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., in a horse-drawn carriage bound for the Capitol and Lincoln’s first inauguration. There, before hundreds of citizens, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney administered the presidential oath of office, swearing in Abraham Lincoln as the sixteenth president of the United States.
Posted in Today in History | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Roger B. Taney
By Staff Reports on 2 March 2009
[ 4 April 2009; 9:00 am; ] The Bridgewater College Civil War Institute presents “Lincoln: 200 Years Later,” a one-day symposium featuring the following authors and speakers:
Posted in Calendar, Conferences | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Bridgewater College, Emancipation Proclamation
By Staff Reports on 22 February 2009
Abraham Lincoln was a town postmaster in New Salem, Ill., before he became President and guided the United States through the Civil War, signed the Emancipation Proclamation and delivered the Gettysburg Address. To celebrate Lincoln’s 200th birthday, the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum highlights his life in the featured collection “From Postmaster to President: Celebrating Lincoln’s [...]
Posted in News, Things | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address
By Linda Goin on 11 February 2009
On the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, many papers would wax poetic about this great man and his legend. Newspapers, however, have become less poetic than they were during the nineteenth century and definitely more cynical as they plod through the twenty-first century. I’ll mirror that cynicism and state that nothing like the following article will appear in any paper today like it did on this same day in 1936.
Posted in Today in History | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Gettysburg Address
By Linda Goin on 26 January 2009
On this day in 1863, General Ambrose Burnside resigned his post as commander of the Army of the Potomac as former President Lincoln assigned General Joseph Hooker as the new commander. Hooker’s assignment was to raise morale and gain success after Burnsides’ often disastrous tenure.
Posted in Today in History | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, General Ambrose Burnside, George Meade, Joseph Hooker
By Staff Reports on 8 January 2009
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) celebrated its grand reopening with a special display of the Gettysburg Address in November 2008. This copy of the Gettysburg Address is on loan from the White House collection for limited public viewing through the generosity of First Lady Laura Bush. The document was on view in the museum’s new Albert H. Small Documents Gallery through Jan. 11, 2009.
Posted in News, Things | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Library of Congress, President of the United States
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