After a single term in the ... South Carolina, and the Civil War began. Lincoln acted swiftly, wielding more authority than any president before him: he appropriated $2 million from the Treasury ...

Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates today: Newspapers during the Civil War often presented starkly ...

He had studied art in Chicago and lived in Spokane briefly between 1911 and 1915 before moving on to Tacoma, then the Seattle area. In 1915, he had created a 10-foot statue of Lincoln for a Tacoma ...

Of all wars, none are quite so catastrophic as civil wars ... not wars. A day after their meeting, Lee warned Grant that Northern armies “might have to march over” the South “three or four times ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery ... New Salem withered shortly after Lincoln's 1837 departure as residents picked up and moved when many ...