History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » Cease Fire http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Lincoln images reconsidered http://www.historynet.com/lincoln-images-reconsidered.htm http://www.historynet.com/lincoln-images-reconsidered.htm#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:15:55 +0000 Marty Jones http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687865 No event of the 19th century aroused as much enthusiasm, controversy and culture change as the presidential proclamation issued on January 1, 1863. Writers and artists of the day immediately and instinctively understood that Abraham Lincoln's proclamation changed everything, first …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/lincoln-images-reconsidered.htm/feed 0 When the people win by voting http://www.historynet.com/when-the-people-win-by-voting.htm http://www.historynet.com/when-the-people-win-by-voting.htm#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:08:04 +0000 Marty Jones http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687463 Lincoln insisted the election of 1864 go forward—even though he was sure he would lose

You hear it all the time, from Democrats and Republicans alike: The 2012 presidential campaign was the ugliest, the longest and the most expensive ever. …

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Between the last month of 1862 and the first hours of 1863, Abraham Lincoln came to terms with his own immortality. In his an­nual message to …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/ready-for-his-close-up.htm/feed 0 Twilight in America http://www.historynet.com/twilight-in-america.htm http://www.historynet.com/twilight-in-america.htm#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:23:19 +0000 Marty Jones http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686397 A good campaign needs more bark, less bite

 Running for president is easy. Being president is hard. Just ask this year's contend­ers—or the moviemakers who came up with an alternative explanation for the mess we're in.

Abraham Lincoln was the …

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Brian Lamb (image courtesy of C-SPAN)I spent a particularly memorable late-winter day a few months ago watching a 6 1/2-hour-long scholarly debate, hosted by the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, on the subject of who best deserves the title …

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A few months ago I e-mailed my friend Marcia Current to ask if her husband felt strong enough to send his annual message …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/still-current-at-99.htm/feed 1 An un-civil war over criticism http://www.historynet.com/an-un-civil-war-over-criticism-2.htm http://www.historynet.com/an-un-civil-war-over-criticism-2.htm#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:45:45 +0000 Marty Jones http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684457 Abraham Lincoln's critics were vitriolic, but at least he didn't have to deal with them in a daily twitter feed.

This past summer, a beleaguered Barack Obama invited a new wave of criticism—if such criticism really surprises him or us …

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