Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural took place in an atmosphere of crisis and foreboding, heightened by the armed troops that patrolled the streets and the Capitol grounds. South Carolina seceded from ...

Two weeks after Jefferson Davis was proclaimed president of the Confederacy, President Abraham Lincoln addressed the nation at his inauguration. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be ...

President Barack Obama used Abraham Lincoln’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bibles at his swearing in ceremony in 2013, two presidents used a chair George Washington sat in at his inaugural and George ...

Inauguration Day on March 4 1865, was special for any number of reasons. It occurred as the Civil War was on the cusp of ending, with the Confederate Army in near full retreat and – though nobody ...

Theodore Roosevelt wore a ring containing a lock of President Abraham Lincoln’s hair on March 14, 1905, at his second inauguration. Roosevelt had been a longtime admirer of Lincoln's, and as a child, ...

Communities in the Erie region have connections to our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Let’s explore a memorial, a statue, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama will use the same Bible at his inauguration that Abraham Lincoln used for his swearing in. Obama will be the first president since Lincoln to use that ...

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