albs_SUPAdminMay 30, 2017
Memorial Day at Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery
Yesterday was Memorial Day.
The usual story about it's origin is that the holiday was started by Union General John Logan. Logan was commander-in-chief of a Union veterans’ organization called the Grand Army of the Republic. Logan issued a decree establishing ... Read More
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Lincoln’s Journey Home
On this date 152 years ago Lincoln's body was lying in state here in Chicago. Throughout the day-at a rate of 7,000 per hour-mourners filed past the casket paying their final respects to President Lincoln. That evening, the Lincoln Funeral ... Read More
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albs_SUPAdminMarch 16, 2016
Nicolay and Hay, and Their “Other” Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln: A History, by President Lincoln’s private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay, stands even today as the most massive single work ever written on the sixteenth president. The publication of the ten-volume set by the Century Company in ... Read More
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albs_SUPAdminMarch 1, 2016
Ambrose Bierce in the Midst of Life
1 March 2016
Most of us encounter the influential short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge in our high school literature classes. Lit teachers like to assign Ambrose Bierce’s haunting tale of psychological terror because of its innovative use of ... Read More
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James G. Randall and his Essential Lincoln Volumes
10 February 2016
James Garfield Randall was born in 1881, and named for the man who was then president of the United States. President Garfield, of course, did not survive the year, but his namesake lived to become, perhaps, the greatest ... Read More
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Henry J. Haynie, The Nineteenth Illinois, ...
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Milo Milton Quaife, ed., The Truth ...
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David E. Long, The Jewel of ...
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George B. McClellan, Manual of Bayonet ...
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Thomas Harris, Assassination of Lincoln, 1st ...
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Elmer Ellsworth, Manual of Arms for ...
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David Rubenstein, Abraham Lincoln: His Life ...
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John Melvin Williams, “The Eagle Regiment,” ...
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The Daily Citizen, Original Issue
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