Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural took place in an atmosphere of crisis and foreboding, heightened by the armed troops that patrolled the streets and the Capitol grounds. South Carolina seceded from ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama will use the same Bible at his inauguration that Abraham Lincoln used for his swearing in. Obama will be the first president since Lincoln to use that ...
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Illinois survey, 1992. Scheinman, Muriel, "Art Collecting at the University of Illinois: A History and Catalogue," Ph.D. diss, University of Illinois, 1981, pg. 133-138. One of ...