While Abraham Lincoln may best be known as the President who served during the Civil War and was the author and presenter of the Emancipation Proclamation, he led a very private life that often times, due to his wife’s behavior, became public. Lincoln helped form the Republican Party to help take a stance on the ...
Stephen Speilberg is preparing a movie on Abraham Lincoln starring Liam Nieson for 2009 release. Lincoln is the man who repeatedly failed, but never quit and remains the most widely regarded president in American history. Lincoln (1809-1865) is considered by many our greatest president because of the trials he faced. He was the first president ...
The proud state of Texas, the Lone Star State, prides itself in its history, especially the 9 year period during which it was the Republic of Texas, a country in its own right. It began after the Texan Rebellion of 1836, and lasted until its annexation by the United States in 1845. California has its ...
On the 14th of April in 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot and mortally wounded President Abraham Lincoln while the President and his wife watched “Our American Cousin” at FordÕs Theatre. Lincoln died the next day and with him died the hope of a relatively peaceful Reconstruction. Without Lincoln to push for leniency in dealing with ...
When you think of Haunted Houses and Ghost Stories, the 1st thing to come in mind is Halloween. However, Halloween isn’t the only time when ghost shows up. In DC, there are plenty of ghost stories in this town. These ghosts roam freely when the lights are out, and the last person left the building. ...
Mary Todd Lincoln was the 16th First Lady of the United States. Born to well-to-do Kentucky slave owners, well educated and refined, Mary was the most unlikely person you would expect to be later wed to a man of poor and simple background, or a man to be later deemed Americas “great emancipator”, for that ...
Out of all the actors who have made news in 2012 for either gaining weight, losing weight, packing on muscle or a combination of some or all of the three, Sally Field may be the most unexpected. Field’s diminutive frame has managed to seem larger than life in movies like “Norma Rae” and appropriately fragile ...