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Alarmingly Similar. What the Chaos Around Lincoln s First Inauguration Can Tell Us About Today, According to Historians
Time
1/15/2021
Olivia B. Waxman
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An illustration of American President-elect Abraham Lincoln walking near a railroad engine in Washington, D.C., on February 23, 1861, with detective Allan Pinkerton, who foiled a plot to assassinate Lincoln ahead of his inauguration that year.
If the tense beginning of 2021 has you worried history is repeating itself, you’re not alone.
Experts on political history say an apt parallel to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol can be found 160 years ago, when seven southern states seceded from the United States between December 1860 and February 1861. ....

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