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 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.

The Edinburgh monument to Robert Smith isn't particularly prominent or well known. The city has a far more famous civil war memorial – a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Old Calton Burial Ground. The Dean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...