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Texas got the big news a little late. On June 19, 1865--nearly a month after the Civil War ended and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation--General Gordon Granger of the Union Army landed at Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No. 3: "The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free...
...President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated...
...interest in commemorating political heroes had largely dried up, and there was no enthusiasm for history painting. Landscape held center stage. Then as now, Americans were incurious about their own history; they were fixated on the future. The sense of commemoration would hardly revive until after the murder of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Lincoln's death seems to mark the point at which Americans began to feel a public emotion that, in their pride at their newness and possibility, they had not felt before. It was nostalgia, a sense of irretrievable loss. Some writers and painters, at least, began...
...infinite advantage, Frankie and Johnny has always attracted superior actors--Kathy Bates and F. Murray Abraham in New York, Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino in Movieland. That tradition continues in the Loeb Ex production, where Sarah Burt-Kinderman "97 and Peter Friedland "98 are providing some enchanted evenings...
...stories of the Prophet's miraculous night journey to heaven. Rising into the skies on the Buraq, a fantastic creature often described as part woman, part horse, part peacock, Muhammad meets Adam, who resides in the lowest heaven, and Jesus, who is only in the fourth level. Abraham welcomes him in the seventh heaven before the Prophet is ushered into paradise for his encounter with God. It was in heaven, according to one traditional tale, that Muhammad, on Moses' advice, bargained down God's original demand of 50 prayers a day to five, the number of times a day each...