The new Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln set out 161 years ago to save the United States from break up. James Russell Lowell, The Atlantic magazine’s first editor, wrote: “The Republicans know that true policy is gradual in its advances, that it is conditional and not absolute, that ...
of the Model 299, a long-range, four-engine heavy bomber that would transform air battles that was eventually coined the “B-17 Flying Fortress.” [Pictured: Machine-gun crew aboard the USS Ranger, Oct. 8, 1935] 1936: Abraham Lincoln Brigade Three Lions // Getty Images 1936: Abraham ...