LINCOLN’S UNKNOWN PRIVATE LIFE: AN ORAL HISTORY BY HIS BLACK HOUSEKEEPER, MARIAH VANCE, 1850-60
Lincoln’s Unknown Private Life: An Oral History by His Black Housekeeper, Mariah Vance, 1850-60, edited by Lloyd Ostendorf and Walter Oleksy, Hastings House, Mamaroneck, New York, 580 pages, $30.00. Memoir raises controversial questions about Lincoln and his wife.
Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.
If you needed some motivation during the war years, there was probably a poster for that.
Travel along the famous sites of Gettysburg, from the Cashtown Inn to Lee’s headquarters, from the eyes of the locals.
