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On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater.
Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010. v. t. e. The presidential transition of Abraham Lincoln began when he won the United States 1860 United States presidential election, becoming the president-elect of the United States, and ended when Lincoln was inaugurated at noon on March 4, 1861. The secession crisis of 1860–61 began soon ...
alhs .nyc. Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Education. The school was built in 1929, and since graduated four Nobel Prize laureates. [3] The current principal is Ari A. Hoogenboom.
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's ...
Title: Abraham Lincoln. Artist: Victor David Brenner (American, born Šiauliai, Lithuania (Shavli, Russian Empire) 1871–1924 New York) Date: 1907. Culture: American. Medium: Bronze. Dimensions: 3 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. (8.9 x 6.7 cm) Credit Line: Gift of the sculptor, 1908. Accession Number: 08.5.2
v. t. e. Emancipation Memorial statue placed in Washington, D.C. in 1876. Abraham Lincoln 's position on slavery in the United States is one of the most discussed aspects of his life. Lincoln frequently expressed his moral opposition to slavery in public and private. [1] ". I am naturally anti-slavery.
The Century Magazine was an illustrated monthly magazine first published in the United States in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Association. It was the successor of Scribner's Monthly Magazine. It was merged into The Forum in 1930.
