In 1877, Winchester was the site of the first lynching in post-Civil War Illinois. The victim’s name was Andrew Richards.Richards’s lynching drew a paragraph on Page 2 of The Great Bend (KS ...

The CIVIL WAR transformed Cleveland from a commercial village ... for the U.S. presidency in 9 of 11 wards for a majority of 58% in Cleveland, over Stephen A. Douglas and 2 southern candidates, did ...

The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... So they argued that the real issue was the right to self-government. Stephen Douglas, Lincoln’s opponent in the presidential election ...