Jumat, 07 April 2017

Lincoln’s Choice: The Dakota War

In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln personally decided who among 303 convicted Dakota warriors would hang. As the sun rose over Mankato, Minnesota, on the morning of the day after Christmas 1862, a door guard allowed a small party of missionaries and newspaper reporters to enter the ground floor of a riverfront …

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