‘More than Just the Almanac: The Duff Armstrong Murder Case’

Abraham Lincoln showing an 1857 almanac to the jury during the famous Armstrong murder trial in the spring of 1858. The original of this Norman Rockwell painting hangs in The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Photo Credit Yankee Archives
The almanac trial is probably Abraham Lincoln’s most famous case. Immortalized by the 1939 Henry Fonda movie Young Mr. Lincoln, it portrays a prosecution witness…
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