A House Divided Archive: News
Tweeting the Civil War: Rumors of an imminent invasion begin to circulate in Charleston and Montgomery
The Washington Post is tweeting the Civil War, in the words of the people who lived it -- from journals, letters, official records and newspapers of the day. Follow us. Twitter recap from week one: Showdown in Charleston Week two:...
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Mary Hadar
| March 11, 2011; 3:31 PM ET |
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Disunion lobbyists important to secession movement
The last of the states to secede from the Union were lobbied by a small army of men who spread out across the upper South to preach the sermon of disunion to all who would listen. They came from those...
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Linda Wheeler
| March 10, 2011; 4:43 PM ET |
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Civil War soldiers to be honored in Living Legacy Tree Planting program
More than 100 miles of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania roadway is about to get a little more green thanks to funding from the Commonwealth and a vision by Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership officials who created a program to honor...
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Jennifer Buske
| March 2, 2011; 11:31 AM ET |
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Hear Lincoln’s first inaugural speech at U.S. Capitol
On Saturday at 10 a.m. at the U.S. Capitol visitor center, actor Sam Waterston will deliver Abraham Lincoln’s justifiably famous first inaugural speech during a re-enactment of the 16th President’s swearing-in. As with the original, which actually occurred a day...
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Linda Wheeler
| February 28, 2011; 2:59 PM ET |
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Tweeting the Civil War: Assassination conspiracy against Lincoln is discovered
The Washington Post is tweeting the Civil War, in the words of the people who lived it -- from journals, letters, official records and newspapers of the day. Follow us. Twitter recap from week one: Showdown in Charleston Week two:...
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Mary Hadar
| February 25, 2011; 5:15 PM ET |
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Great drama at Virginia secession convention
A book with a rather ordinary, academic title—“Showdown in Virginia: The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union”—turns out to be a great read. Historians William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson researched the four volumes of official convention...
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Linda Wheeler
| February 23, 2011; 6:47 PM ET |
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