Washington in 1861: The New Dawn of Our Nation’s Capital On the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration, Washington was more like the third world capitals of today: an overgrown village in which luxury ...

The recent proposal for Eastern Washington to secede from Western Washington, creating the State of Liberty, is not the first time someone has tried such a plan.

Disloyalty in Washington. Share full article Aug. 20, 1861 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from August 20, 1861, Page 2 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine ...

An atmospheric river moving across Western Washington is causing high avalanche danger in parts of the Cascades. But even with buckets of rain dumping on a city already famous for its dreary ...

The firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, was a fateful moment — one of the most profound in U.S. history — and in many ways the moment modern America was born.

Mark Tooley talked about the background and goals of the various peace delegates who met in Washington, D.C., in 1861 to try to avert the Civil War following Abraham Lincoln's election. Mr. Tooley ...

[Read Theodore Winthrop's June 1861 dispatch, Our March to Washington and the obituary for Winthrop that ran in the August Atlantic in place of his scheduled dispatch.] OUR BARRACKS AT THE CAPITOL ...

The groups that Clark is referring to are Montlake Futures, the official NIL collective of the University of Washington, and the Montlake Players, which has similar goals to the 1861 Foundation.

WASHINGTON is the paradise of paradoxes,— a city of magnificent distances, but of still more magnificent discrepancies. Anything may be affirmed of it, everything denied.

During the long, slow descent into war at the start of 1861, Capt.Abner Doubleday filled the tedious hours at besieged Fort Sumter by designing a medal he thought Congress ought to award him and ...

Check out Christopher Lane's appraisal of an 1861 "Washington Map of the United States" wall map, from Harrisburg, Hour 2.

ORDER IN WASHINGTON. Share full article Aug. 7, 1861 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from August 7, 1861, Page 2 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine ...