I produced a short webisode about Lincoln’s 2 day funeral procession through Philadelphia between April 22-23, 1865. Gettysburg College professor and writer, Allen Guelzo, comments on the emotions, impact and enormity of the weekend where the large crowds of grieving Philadelphians came together to pay their last respects.
Lincoln's presidency happened to correspond with the advent in America of the carte de visite, a sma ...
"The truth is I must have a change of some sort, or die," Abraham Lincoln said when criticized for a ...
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