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Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in ...
Jackie HoganWilliam H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story ofa Great Life. ... Guelzo, Ahraham Lincoln: Redeemer President; H. Donald Winkler, The Women in Lincoln's Life: How the Sixteenth American President Was Shaped ...
Lincoln’s Darkest Year: The War in 1862
William MarvelMarvel continues the story he began in Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, which focused on Lincoln’s first year in office, again relying on recently unearthed primary sources and little-known accounts to paint a picture of this critical year in ...
Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life
William Henry HerndonThe True Story of a Great Life William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik. anybody, and even if what you say of him is true I intend to stick by him." Lincoln's effort to obtain the Congressional nomination in 1843 brought out several unique ...
Lincoln in Indiana
Brian R. DirckLincoln in Indiana offers a fascinating account of Lincoln's boyhood in Indiana, setting the relationships, values, and environment that fundamentally shaped Lincoln's character within the context of frontier and farm life in early ...
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin361 William Sprague: Peg A. Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), pp. 27–28. 361 “I was thrust... highest positions”: William Sprague, quoted in Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 32. 361 As the largest employer... of his own money: “The Rhode Island Spragues,” unknown newspaper clipping, December 5, 1883, in KCS vertical file, DWP. 361 “a loan... the troops”: Belden ...
Herndon's Lincoln: A True Story of a Great Life
William H. HerndonFirst published in 1889 across three small volumes, this replica edition collects the complete work into one book that will surprise and delight even those students of history who believe they know everything there is to know about Lincoln.
The Annotated Lincoln
Abraham LincolnNo U.S. president has faced the problems Lincoln confronted, nor expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment.
Tarnished Victory: Finishing Lincoln's War
William MarvelIn the end, it seems that Lincoln’s early critics, who played such a pivotal role at the start of the series, are proven correct. Victory did require massive bloodshed and complete conquest of the South.
Monthly Bulletin
Ohio State LibraryThe ancestry of Abraham Lincoln; by James Henry Lea. B-L638 . The boyhood of Lincoln: by Eleanor Atkinson. B-L638 . The boy's life of Abraham Lincoln; by Helen Nicolay. B-L638 . The death of Lincoln; the story of Booth's plot, his deed and ...
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell FreedmanThe book's final chapter is a moving account of that tragic evening in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Concludes with a sampling of Lincoln writings and a detailed list of Lincoln historical sites.
The Lincoln Legacy: A Quarterly Publication of the Lincoln ...
David A. WarrenLINCOLN, LAND, AND LABOR, 1809-60 By Olivier Fraysse Translated By Sylvia Neely ******************************** Reviewed by Steven K. Rogstad The title of this book may cause many non- academics to avoid reading it, which would be ...
Lincoln on Democracy
Abraham LincolnBack in print after ten years, this unique book brings together 141 speeches, speech excerpts, letters, fragments, and other writings by Lincoln on the theme of democracy.
Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father To an Army an
William C. DavisWayne Mahood, ed., Charlie Mosher's Civil War: From Fair Oaks to Andersonville with the Plymouth Pilgrims (85th N.Y. Infantry) (Hightstown, N.J., 1994), p. 270. 54 Fisk, Letters, pp. 273, 276, 277. Allan Baker Diary, November 8, 1864, CWMC, ...
Charles Stearns Wheeler: friend of Emerson
John Olin Eidson... in the building of Lincoln, see Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr., A Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America (Boston: American College of Genealogy, 1914), passim; and William F. Wheeler's history of Lincoln in the ...
Citizen Lincoln
Ward McAfeeIn modern times, some critics have belittled Abraham Lincoln's antislavery resolve as shallow. Some have portrayed him as a passive president, waiting upon the bold initiatives of others. 'Citizen Lincoln' regards him differently.
Abraham Lincoln
Christi E. ParkerWho Was Abraham Lincoln? Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States ' during hard times. The people of the United States argued about many problems. The most important issue was slavery. Lincoln was against slavery.
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
Walter StahrSome of Lincoln’s critics even saw Seward, erroneously, as the power behind the throne; this is why John Wilkes Booth and his colleagues attempted to kill Seward as well as Lincoln.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Abraham LincolnThis book is available again in a fresh new edition just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address with a new introduction by Lincoln- and Civil War–scholar Gabor S. Boritt.
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. ...
Sidney BlumenthalThis first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as “a slave,” to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
Allen C. GuelzoThe first "intellectual biography" of Lincoln, this work explores the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him as a serious thinker deeply involved in the nineteenth-century debates over politics, religion, and culture.
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
Walter StahrPresents a profile of the leader of Lincoln's "team of rivals," examining the many political roles he had in his lifetime, including governor of New York, Secretary of State, and Lincoln's closest advisor during the Civil War.
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Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Edward Steers133; Elden C. Weckesser, His Name Was Mudd (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 1991), p. 143. 18. Bryan, The Great American Myth; Eisenschiml, Why Was Lincoln Murdered?; Roy Z. Chamlee Jr., Lincoln's Assassins (Jefferson, ...
The Global Lincoln
PreviewJay Sexton Barack Obama masterfully employed Lincoln's image during his historic presidential campaign of 2008. Obama went to great lengths to cast himself as Lincoln's heir, even launching his presidential bid on the steps of the Old State ...
Abraham Lincoln: Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth ...
PreviewLincoln. Cult. THOMAS DILORENZO Thomas DiLorenzo joined C-SPAN's Q&A for an interview on May 25, 2008, to talk about his book Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe, published by Crown Forum.
Report of the Transactions ... for the year 1837-8, with ...
Massachusetts Horticultural Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts)Harris, William T. Cambridge. Hed e, Isaac L. Plymouth. How and ... Lincoln William, L manj'lI'heodore, Jr. Boston. ewhall, Qheever, Dorchester. Newhall, Josiah, Lynnfleld. ... Worthington, William, Dorchester. MEMBERS. Brewer, Thomas ...
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President ...
Joshua Wolf ShenkA reassessment of the life of Abraham Lincoln argues that America's sixteenth president suffered from depression and explains how Lincoln used the coping strategies he had developed to face the crises of the Civil War and personal tragedy.
Lincoln-lore: Lincoln in the Popular Mind
PreviewLincoln in the Popular Mind Ray Broadus Browne. The Niggers and the Small Pox I dropped in upon Mr. Lincoln and found him busily counting greenbacks. " This, sir," said he, "is something out of my usual line; but a President of the United States has a multiplicity of duties not specified in the Constitution or acts of Congress. This is one of them. This money belongs to a poor negro who is a porter in one of the Departments (the Treasury), and who is at present very bad with the small ...
Politics for the Greatest Good: The Case for Prudence in the ...
Clarke Forsythe[69] Simon, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney, pp.180-83. [70] Ibid., p.181; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, p.334. [71] Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 2:232 (“ Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress”). [72] Ibid. [73] Farber, Lincoln's ...
The True Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Betty Boles EllisonMary Todd Lincoln had a brilliant mind, a caring heart and an exuberant personality and she was, in every aspect, a true partner to Abraham Lincoln.
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