One hundred fifty years ago today James Buchanan was at his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and wrote a letter to New York Herald editor James Gordon Bennett in which he reflected on his administration. The Herald, as Buchanan explained, had provided “able & powerful support…almost universally throughout my stormy and turbulent administration.” Yet overall Buchanan […]
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President James Buchanan’s Administration
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Letters & Diaries, Places to Visitno comment
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Civil War Anniversary News Roundup – February 27-March 5, 2011
Posted by smithti Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Recent NewsNews coverage of Civil War events continued to run high this past week as the nation remembers the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict. The main event this week in history was Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration as president on March 4, 1861. William C. Kashatus of the Philadelphia Inquirer provided a thoughtful overview of […]
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President Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic PeriodicalsOne hundred fifty years ago today Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth President of the United States. After he delivered his Inaugural Address from the central portico of the U.S. Capitol, Chief Justice Roger Taney administered the oath of office. Newspapers throughout the country published Lincoln’s speech and debated what it meant for the future of the […]
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Recently From the Blogosphere
Posted by smithti Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Civil War (1861-1865)The 150th anniversary of President-Elect Lincoln‘s tense arrival in Washington has provoked several evocative blog posts. Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, provides a comprehensive decscription about Lincoln’s travels for the “Disunion” blog at the New York Times. Through several posts (see especially 2/10, 2/21 and 2/22) Widmer traces the route from […]
