Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Illinois
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Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Katherine Menz |
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Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
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Author | : Abraham Lincoln |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 158182677X |
Rev. ed. of: A commitment to honor: a unique portrait of Abraham Lincoln in his own words. Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Press, c2000.
Author | : United States. National Park Service |
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Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Lincoln Home National Historic Site (Springfield, IL). |
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Author | : Alan J. Osborn |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Archaeological surveying |
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Author | : Michael Burlingame |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643137352 |
An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd. Abraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded “connubial bliss” as an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing the soldier's life, Lincoln said: “I want to punish the young man—probably in less than a year he will wish I had withheld the pardon.” Based on thirty years of research, An American Marriage describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to regret his marriage to Mary Todd. This revealing narrative shows that, as First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence. The reader comes to learn that Lincoln wed Mary Todd because, in all likelihood, she seduced him and then insisted that he protect her honor. Perhaps surprisingly, the 5’2” Mrs. Lincoln often physically abused her 6’4” husband, as well as her children and servants; she humiliated her husband in public; she caused him, as president, to fear that she would disgrace him publicly. Unlike her husband, she was not profoundly opposed to slavery and hardly qualifies as the “ardent abolitionist” that some historians have portrayed. While she providid a useful stimulus to his ambition, she often “crushed his spirit,” as his law partner put it. In the end, Lincoln may not have had as successful a presidency as he did—where he showed a preternatural ability to deal with difficult people—if he had not had so much practice at home.
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Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Sangamon County (Ill.) |
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Author | : Alan J. Osborn |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Archaeological surveying |
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Author | : Leonard, Elizabeth |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807835005 |
This manuscript is the first biography of Joseph Holt, the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General during the Civil War. Leonard argues that Holt has been portrayed as more or less a caricature of himself, flatly represented as the brutal prosecutor of Lincoln's assassins and the judge who allowed Mary Surratt to be hanged despite knowing her sentence had been reduced. Leonard contends that the southern view of Holt became the predominant way we see him, in large part because the memory perpetrated by the Lost Cause defined Holt as ruthless toward Southerners and the South. But Leonard argues that there is much more to Holt than what sympathizers with the Lost Cause came to think of him, and she tells his story here, from his early life in Kentucky to his wartime life as a member of Lincoln's administration to his postwar life as the prosecutor of Lincoln's assassins. Perhaps most important, Leonard will look at the erasure of Holt from American memory and investigate how such a significant figure has come to be so widely misunderstood.
Author | : Abraham Lincoln |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2009-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141956631 |
The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.