Is Abraham Lincoln, born in a log cabin on the Western frontier, the Father of the West? Our nation celebrated 150 years ago—on April 9, 1865—Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. Six days later, the nation mourned the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, who died the morning of April 15, 1865, after John Wilkes Booth shot him the night before. But, even in death, while the North and South struggled to bind into a


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