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Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — From Abraham Lincoln's boyhood residence to the Mary Todd Lincoln house, visitors this year are flocking to Kentucky sites dedicated to the 16th president. But Lincoln's Confederate ...

"Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky, Davis in June 1808 and ...

Flitting shadows -- In the days of our youth -- Unconquerable hearts -- Borne by loving hands -- The body of the president embalmed -- We shall see and know our friends in heaven -- The cause is not ...

Nigel Hamilton is one of America’s least conventional and most interesting historians. His landmark, three-volume study of Franklin Roosevelt’s military leadership, “FDR at War,” offers extraordinary ...

Though it is celebrated to varying degrees only in a few southern States, seeing this on a locally distributed calendar this weekend led me to refresh my history of the man and his position as ...

— From Abraham Lincoln's boyhood residence to the Mary Todd Lincoln house, visitors this year are flocking to Kentucky sites dedicated to the 16th president. But Lincoln's Confederate counterpart, ...

Military historian and presidential biographer Nigel Hamilton talks about the military face-off between two American presidents - Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis - during the Civil War. He ...

After an absence of 69 years, Jefferson Davis was last week ready to re-enter the U. S. Capitol as a representative of Mississippi. In heroic bronze he will take his place in Statuary Hall. Sculptor ...