One day, while living with her husband in London, Elisabeth Payne Rosen spilled her groceries in front of the Duke of York’s Barracks on King’s Road and in a flash of inspiration, decided that she wanted to know everything about the American Civil War. Rosen’s ensuing research is presented in her first novel “Hallam’s Warâ€â€”the [...]
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Feb
The Lincoln revival keeps reviving with the opening of his summer cottage
Posted by admin Published in TourWASHINGTON — The place where Abraham Lincoln spent almost a quarter of his presidency isn’t elaborate. No spectacular gold decorations, no breathtaking architectural feats. Instead, Lincoln’s Gothic Revival-style cottage was sparsely furnished, just the bare necessities, as his family lugged their belongings to and from the White House, 2 miles to the south, five months [...]
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Jan
Mortality defines the human condition. “We all have our dead-we all have our
Graves,” a Confederate Episcopal bishop observed in an 1862 sermon. Every era,
he explained, must confront “like miseries”; every age must search for “like
consolation.” Yet death has its discontinuities as well. Men and women approach
death in ways shaped by history, by culture, by conditions [...]
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