Harry Jaffa suggested that Americans should adopt a “civil religion,” with Lincoln as a quasi-divine figure. This, of course, ...

A recent survey of senior government employees revealed that 42% plan to work against the incoming Trump administration.

American Civil War quickly showed both sides the costs of war. Each year proved a drain as the human toll became apparent.

A recent survey of senior government employees revealed that 42 percent of them plan to work against the incoming Trump ...

Created “in Order to form a more perfect Union,” the Constitution, in force since 1789, sought to improve efficiency through ...

Trump's habit is to treat Lincoln not only as a giant of history, but something of a political contemporary. And a flawed one at that.

However, his short fuse and alcoholism eventually wrecked his own life and brought disaster for Texas during the Civil War. Louis Trezevant Wigfall ... With the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, he ...

Opportunities and announcements in local arts include new exhibits announced at Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory and the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research, as well as music and lectures at ...

However, his short fuse and alcoholism eventually wrecked his own life and brought disaster for Texas during the Civil War. Louis Trezevant ... election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, he co-wrote ...

Many men in history are brought high by their ambitions, only to fall from their vices. Louis Wigfall, an attorney, legislator, and later U.S. senator from Texas, had many advantages ...

No serious scholar, for example, accepts the authenticity of statements attributed to Lincoln by the renegade Catholic priest Charles Chiniquy to the effect that the Jesuits caused the Civil War ...

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