Bruce Murkoff's "Red Rain" is a rich, thick stew of a historical novel, a powerfully imagined and thoroughly believable vision of America in its nadir summer of 1864. The protagonist is Will Harp ...

CENTRAL AMERICA. Share full article Dec. 27, 1864 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from December 27, 1864, Page 8 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine ...

In 1864, Like in 2020, America Just Got Lucky The arc of history does not bend inevitably toward justice. Sometimes, Americans barely avoid disaster.

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The Outcome Of course, Lincoln did win his bid for re-election in 1864, running on the ticket of the National Union Party, which attracted votes from both Republicans and pro-Union Democrats. General ...

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Notwithstanding the absence of lofty mountain-chains in America, we are not wholly without the means of measuring the thickness of the ice - sheet, by comparing it, as in Europe, with some of our ...

Then, in 1864, the most elaborate election conspiracy in America’s brief history was discovered before it could corrupt the vote.

The South was being overwhelmed by superior numbers and firepower. If 1863 was the year of the rifle-musket in America’s bloody Civil War, then 1864 was the year of the repeater.

Directly ending human life—at any stage—tears the metaphysical tapestry of existence.

Authors and historians talked about the impact and significance of the 1864 presidential election. Candidates were Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan, Lincoln's former commander of the ...

Elizabeth Varon talked about the 1864 presidential election from the Confederate point of view. Candidates in the 1864 presidential election were Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan ...