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A Conversation with Meg Groeling, Author of First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero
Read about Col. Elmer Ellsworth’s short but eventful life, which ended in a heroic death in Alexandria.
They Knew Lincoln
A conversation at Ford's Theatre on April 16--D.C. Emancipation Day--between historian Kate Masur and journalist Michele Norris about this fascinating book and its original author, John E. Washington
Upon Hearing about the Death of Abraham Lincoln
Julia Wilbur records what she felt and saw the day after Lincoln's assassination.
The Morning After
Julia Wilbur records what she felt and saw the day after Lincoln's assassination.
How a Paragraph Helped Win the War
Paragraph 6 of the Emancipation Proclamation ushered in a new era. Here's how.