We have a new YouTube series here at Historic America! Our Virtual Tour episodes began last week with the FDR Memorial and continue this week with a look at perhaps the most famous DC landmark of all - the Lincoln Memorial.
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On the early morning of April 15, 1865 — Lincoln died across the street from Ford’s Theatre where he had been shot the following evening. While every American knows the tragic story of Lincoln’s demise, not many know what he had in his pockets at the time. But thanks to the Library of Congress, we are able to see Lincoln in a strikingly more humanizing way through the items he had on his person that fateful night.
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The newest installment of Historic America’s YouTube series Dead, White & Blue has been released. In this episode Aaron & special guest Jake Wynn (from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine) spotlight the short life of Abraham Lincoln’s best loved son Willie.
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When one thinks of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina, the mind immediately goes to Fort Sumter where on April 12, 1861 Confederate forces fired the first shots of what became the bloodiest war in American history. However, just over a year after the war began, Charleston was also the site of an extraordinary act of courage on the part of an enslaved man named Robert Smalls. Despite this, many people have never heard the story of Smalls’ actions.
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As we inaugurate a new president, let us look back at one of the most notable inaugural addresses delivered during the most divided time in our nation’s history.
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Gettysburg is where my nerd-odyssey began at the tender age of 7 … It will always be a special place to me.
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Some might say the Gettysburg Address, but for my money, the 2nd Inaugural Address is not only Lincoln's best speech, but also the greatest American speech ever delivered - and let me tell you why.
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Here's a few factoids you may not have known about Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth...
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I recently placed a visit to The Old Print Gallery in Washington, DC's Georgetown neighborhood to learn about the history of printmaking and see the amazing collection of classic American prints the space has to offer. For lovers of historic American art, The Old Print Gallery is like Candy Land and I was really excited that they allowed us to film inside.
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One hundred and fifty one years ago today (or six score and eleven years ago depending on who's counting), Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
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