Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial Shrine will present historian ... in the Fight for the West,” speaking on “The American Civil War in the Desert Southwest” 11 a.m. March 1 in the Assembly ...

The Lincoln Memorial became more than a monument ... even heavier as he grappled with the moral and human toll of the Civil War. In moments of reflection — such as after the devastating losses ...

On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...

and the first battle of the Civil War broke out at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, just weeks later. 6. It took more than 50 years for the Lincoln Memorial to be approved and completed.

Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil War. Initially, Lincoln espoused only the cause of Unionism. But as the war continued, he saw ...

La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere musical digs deep into the experiences of Frederick Douglass and the freed Black slaves ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, will ...

The Civil War was still being fought ... in South Dakota. The Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., is one of the most visited monuments in the capital. Across the U.S. and around the world ...

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 ...