A newly discovered 150-year-old map of the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam shows
thousands of graves of Union and Confederate soldiers killed near Sharpsburg,
Md., in 1862.
Lincoln’s mail included advice, warnings, pleas, and death sentences. Thousands of the transcriptions are now on line, as Library of Congress concludes its massive “Letters to Lincoln” project.
The National Woman’s Party said it is donating a large collection of artifacts, many from the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument in D.C., to the federal government.