When the trailers for the movie Civil War dropped a few months ago ... on D.C., armored tanks rolling through urban streets, the Lincoln Memorial blown up spectacularly. On movie websites and ...

Why is it one of the best Civil War movies: Though Lincoln features very little in terms of combat, Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film does a marvelous job of capturing the fears and ...

Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the ... and Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012), starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...

Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil War. Initially, Lincoln espoused only the cause of Unionism. But as the war continued, he saw ...