Owing to this apparent singleness of heart and purpose, a biography of Lincoln is the ... towards a life of Abraham Lincoln, will be secure of readers. Originally of Quaker origin and of ...

In his 1863 Gettysburg Address, he argued that the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln ...

And the work he has given us is not only a biography of Lincoln and a history of the Civil ... and the harrowing uncertainty of its consequences; Father Abraham; the see-sawing of war’s fortunes ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...

Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great ... Greene later told William Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner and earliest ...

On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...

Prominent Abraham Lincoln scholar, author, and professor Michael Burlingame will be the featured speaker at the Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA) Birthday Banquet on Saturday, February 15 at the ...

Some of Hunt’s abstract metal creations are now on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library ... spent a recent afternoon with Jon Ott, a biographer and close friend of Hunt’s.