Tag: Abraham Lincoln
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Fifty Years Ago Lincoln Was Inaugurated
If you enjoy this blog, I hope you’re also following the New York Times Disunion series. While I’ve been posting the most interesting articles from the Sunday Magazine 100 years ago in real time, they’ve been posting about the events of 150 years ago leading up to the Civil War in real time. So for…
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Living Stage Folk Who Knew And Cheered Lincoln
On President Lincoln’s 102nd birthday, the Magazine found some of the actors whom he had befriended, and sought their recollections of the President. Here is Teresa Carreño‘s story of meeting the President when she was just nine years old: “I was a capricious little minx,” she said in relating the episode, “not a day older…
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Rathbone Ends Long List Of Lincoln Party Tragedies
This was new to me: the night Abraham Lincoln was shot, there was actually another couple in the private box with the Lincolns at Ford’s Theatre, and it turns out that their story is even more gruesome than the Lincons’ story. In fact, it seems that anyone who was in that box that night met…
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