In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem; he also offered services as a wood chopper, county deputy surveyor, and lawyer. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room ...
The late William Safire, one of two presidential speech writers who coined the famous anti-media digs of the 60s, ‘nattering nabobs of negativism’ and ‘effete corps of impudent snobs’, narrated how ...
National Museum of American History Abraham Lincoln's Watch, around 1858 National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of James Brown, Civil War veteran, with a picture of Abraham ...
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Our View: There are reasons for thanks — 162 years later
At the height of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, at the urging of a magazine editor, proclaimed a national ...
“Abraham Lincoln” (1865) by W.F.K. Travers in the "America's Presidents" gallery at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, on loan from the Hartley Dodge Foundation. Courtesy of National ...
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday in a proclamation entreating all Americans to “heal the wounds of the nation” at the height of the Civil War. Today, Americans ...
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