Finals

Pithy tribute to Lincoln's Big Apple roots.(Exhibition: Lincoln and New York, The New-York Historical Society)
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 1047 words; ...round that forces visitors to crane their necks to watch a series of quotes about the riots, unevenly read by actors. The final gallery deals with the outpouring of grief in New York over Lincoln's death. Among the artifacts is a recently discovered...

Lee's last hurrah: five years after the war, the beloved former general set out on a sentimental journey through the Southland.(General Robert E. Lee)(Cover story)(Biography)
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 3615 words; ...Pickett remained bitter about Gettysburg, while Lee hadn't forgotten his subordinate's poor performance during the war's final campaign in Virginia. Their meeting was icily formal. Leaving with Mosby, Pickett muttered, "He had my division slaughtered...

Trench warfare shaped Petersburg.(In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat)(Book review)
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 709 words; ...Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat, by Earl J. Hess, University of North Carolina Press [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The final volume in an extraordinary trilogy on field fortifications in the Eastern theater, In the Trenches at Petersburg is also the...

Resources.
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 538 words; ...and Museum Web exhibit, The Office of Robert E. Lee: 11th President of Washington College. Visit: mfmdesign.com/lee_final/and chapelapps.wlu.edu/ Take a virtual tour of Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial at nps.gov/archive...

Reach for the stars: Allan McNish and the Jim Russell Racing School team up to give promising young racers a fighting chance to break through.(MAKING TRACKS: RACERS RISING)
Racer; 1/1/2010; 1026 words; ...who explains that the winners must demonstrate all-around skills. "One of the seats will go to the fastest guy in the final," McNish relates, "but the other will go to whoever demonstrates the most potential. Sometimes, a driver may not be particularly...