When President-Elect Abraham Lincoln boarded a train for Washington D.C., he seemed to know it was the last time he would ever be in Illinois, says Ted Widmer, author of "Lincoln on the Verge."
When President-Elect Abraham Lincoln boarded a train for Washington D.C., he seemed to know it was the last time he would ever be in Illinois, says Ted Widmer, author of "Lincoln on the Verge."
This Day in History: , FDR Establishes
the Modern
Thanksgiving Holiday.
November 26, 1941.
President Franklin..