Tag Archives: Ike

On Ike in Gettysburg

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Chris Mackowski

On November 19, 1963, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a speech in Gettysburg’s national cemetery to commemorate the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. (For details on the event and Ike’s speech, see this post, “Ike, JFK, and the … Continue reading →

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Imagining Wild Bill

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Emerging Civil War

ECW is pleased to welcome our friend Paul Ashdown, co-author of the newest book in our Engaging the Civil War Series, published in partnership with Southern Illinois University Press: Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory. … Continue reading →

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Grant Memorial Poetry: “Grant”

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Chris Mackowski

Today’s Grant memorial poem comes from the August 4, 1885, edition of the Albany Evening Journal, where it appeared on page 2. Written the previous day as an original piece for the paper, the poem ponders the nature of greatness. … Continue reading →

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Ike, JFK, and the Gettysburg Address

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Chris Mackowski

Today is the anniversary of the death of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1969. In commemoration, we offer the intertwined story of Ike, JFK, Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address. *     *     * For the 100th anniversary of … Continue reading →

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