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As America approaches 2025, Abraham Lincoln's prescient words about internal destruction of democracy resonate amid growing ...
A silver gelatin print of Abraham Lincoln while campaigning for the U.S. Senate in Chicago, October 27, 1854. Sidney Blumenthal writes that until he was 21 years old, Abraham Lincoln’s father ...
This delicate print, made from a wood engraving on tissue paper, is housed in The Drexel Collection. This month, in honor of this birthday, the From the Collection series spotlights a portrait of ...
It's “quite possibly the most valuable historical find of our time” — a photo of President Abraham Lincoln on his deathbed.
But back in the 1800s, books made Abraham Lincoln. ... "Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print" uses original printings of books and ephemera to create a sweeping, conceptual portrait of the man.
Lincoln’s mail included advice, warnings, pleas, and death sentences. Thousands of the transcriptions are now on line, as Library of Congress concludes its massive “Letters to Lincoln” project.
However, Lincoln did speak to the spirit of the quote well before he ran for president in 1860, and well before he served his one term in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1847-49.
LANSING, MI -- On Abraham Lincoln's birthday this week, we published a story about how the 16th president coined the term 'Michigander.' It was nothing new: the bit of linguistic history had been ...
From Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln, revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives on the Civil War President. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?
WM.H. HERNDOE, for twenty years the law partner of Mr. LINCOLN, delivered a lecture on the life and characteristics of the late President, at Springfield, Ill., on the 17th inst, to be followed by ...
In very small print under the quotation was an important note: "Paraphrased from his 1838 speech at the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois." Lincoln never literally said "America will ...
Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary Guide Nonfiction Summer Preview Advertisement Supported by nonfiction In “Lincoln’s God,” Joshua Zeitz examines the 16th president’s personal ...