March 4th, 1865 was rainy and wet in Washington D.C. It was also Inauguration Day for Abraham Lincoln’s second term as President of the United States. After nearly four long years of Civil War, the end was finally in sight, but the Confederacy had not surrendered. In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln called on the [...]
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By the end of 1863, John Wilkes Booth had reached the peak of his acting career. He was earning $20,000 a year from his work on the stage which was big money in the 1860s. Booth looked for investment opportunities outside of acting, and he became interested in the new, and booming, petroleum business. Booth teamed [...]
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Sally Field has been cast as Mary Todd Lincoln in director Stephen Spielberg’s upcoming biographic film about Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War presidency. Daniel Day-Lewis will portray Lincoln in the film, which is based on the book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The film is to be released in the fourth quarter of 2012. Day-Lewis [...]
