When the trailers for the movie Civil War dropped a few months ago ... on D.C., armored tanks rolling through urban streets, the Lincoln Memorial blown up spectacularly. On movie websites and ...
OVERVIEW: Abraham Lincoln’s presidency was defined by the Civil War. Before he even took office—and largely because of his election—southern states were seceding from the Union, and he would ...
On April 12, 1861, barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War began. Lincoln acted swiftly, wielding more ...
In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would resolve the issue of slavery in the U.S. He wasn’t wrong. An anonymous letter supposedly from a member of a secret ...