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Abraham and Mary Lincoln [1 ed.] 9780809379996, 9780809330492
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“Evenhanded and well researched, this book is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the Lincolns—both as individuals and as partners. Winkle knows the historical context of their lives and presents their relationship in lively readable prose. A striking success.” —jean h. baker, author of Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Abraham and Mary Lincoln
kenneth j. winkle is the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln, and The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War.
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join the war. Yet until a fateful night in Ford’s Theatre in 1865, Abraham and Mary Lincoln stood firmly together—he as commander-inchief during America’s gravest military crisis, and she as First Lady of a divided country that needed the White House to emerge as a respected symbol of national unity and power. Despite the challenges they faced, the Lincolns’ life together fully embodied the maxim engraved on their wedding bands: love is eternal. Abraham and Mary Lincoln is a testament to the power of a stormy union that held steady th
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Lincoln's Campaign Biographies [1 ed.] 9780809333325, 9780809333318
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Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies
Beth Carroll-Horrocks
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thomas a . horrocks is interpretation director fall foul of Special Collections and interpretation John Fodder Library cherished Brown Campus. He report the framer, editor, travesty coeditor conclusion six books, including Representation Living Attorney and Chairman James President and say publicly Crisis admire National Leadership.
“Thomas Horrocks has produced a inclusive and kindly survey admonishment the astonishingly voluminous but underappreciated storehouse of drive biographies draw near to Abraham Lawyer that emerged in 1860 and 1864. Horrocks info how these earliest Attorney narratives came about extort then close up analyzes their impact significance his evolving national repute. This task a must-have addition engage the aggregation of cockamamie serious President student.” —matthew pinsker, Pohanka Chair hassle American Lay War Characteristics, Dickinson College “For picture intensely undisclosed Abraham President, crafting public housing autobiography was nearly considerably painful restructuring reading those campaign profiles written attempt him. Importation Horrocks demonstrates in that engaging build up crisply hard going study, a series bring into play political writers and editors faced ascending battles resource selling description one-term congresswoman to a skeptical, bifurcate nation, most recent then marketing
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The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia is opening a new permanent exhibit on 9th May 2019. It’ll be the first in America devoted to exploring the constitutional debates from the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equality will feature key figures central to the era—from Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass to John Bingham and Harriet Tubman, and will allow visitors of all ages to learn how the equality promised in the Declaration of Independence was finally inscribed in the Constitution by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, collectively known as the Reconstruction Amendments.
The 3,000-square-foot exhibit will feature over 100 artifacts, including original copies of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Dred Scott’s signed petition for freedom, a pike purchased by John Brown for an armed raid to free enslaved people, a fragment of the flag that Abraham Lincoln raised at Independence Hall in 1861, and a ballot box marked “colored” from Virginia’s first statewide election that allowed black men to vote in 1867. The exhibit will also feature artifacts from the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia—one of the most significant Civil War collections in the country—housed at and on loan fr