“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...

"LINCOLN'S PEACE: THE STRUGGLE TO END THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR" by Michael Vorenberg (Alfred A. Knopf, 438 pages, $35). Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to ...

Preservation work has begun on a Frederick County farmhouse that predates the Civil War and sits on land where an influential ...

Preservation work has begun on a Frederick County farmhouse that predates the Civil War and sits on land where an influential ...

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President Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation, American Civil War 1861-65 President Abraham Lincoln writes the Emancipation Proclamation ... Washington's Birthday.... Antique illustration - log ...

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 ...

Kyiv and Moscow both said they would rely on Washington to enforce the deals, while expressing scepticism that the other side ...

Might we imagine what arguments would be heard today, if Lincoln’s town meeting took up such an issue? Would we prepare for war? “Lincoln’s History” is an occasional column by members of the Lincoln ...