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 ...

Even with autumn on the horizon and winter not far behind, for the really stormy stuff, you have to go back to the winter of 1861-1862.

WASHINGTON, Monday, July 8, 1861. The announcement in the Presidential Message that "the sovereignty and rights of the United States are now everywhere practically respected by foreign Powers, and ...

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.

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.

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at reco ...

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. VII. — JANUARY, 1861.—NO. XXXIX. WASHINGTON is the paradise of paradoxes,— a city of magnificent distances, but of still more magnificent ...

Washington Huskies alum Will Dissly, Lawyer Milloy and Mario Bailey are among the 1861 NIL Foundation group establishing opportunities for youth in Washington.

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 ...

The four tall columns at UW's Sylvan Theater were originally old-growth cedar trees that first adorned the portico of the 1861 Territorial University building downtown.