As Bluegreen Vacation Club owners, my wife, son, and I get to travel to many terrific vacation spots. We see many fine beach resorts, but occasionally we like to see some of our nation’s most popular historical locations. We visited Charleston, South Carolina, in the late 2000s for some Colonial history. It was one of ...
In my view, the Civil War is the single most crucial event in the history of United States. During the four-years from 1861-1865, more than 660,000 American soldiers – both Union and Confederate – died or were wounded in the War Between the States, making it the bloodiest conflict ever on the North American continent. ...
COMMENTARY | When Abraham Lincoln was elected to the U.S. presidency in 1860, it was akin to lighting a fuse on a keg of gunpowder. The long national debate over slavery had gone back and forth with no resolution. Since Lincoln had made it part of his platform to resist the expansion of slavery, seven ...
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 close to Hodgenville, Kentucky. His family moved to Indiana in 1816. When Lincoln was ten his mother died from poisoned milk. His father remarried the next year to Sarah Bush Johnston. Abraham liked her very much and even later recalled her “his angel mother. (Encarta)” Abraham had ...
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