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Author | : Bonnie E Paull |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 162585532X |
Download Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When an emotional Abraham Lincoln took leave of his Springfield neighbors, never to return, his moving tribute to the town and its people reflected their profound influence on the newly elected president. His old neighborhood still stands today as a National Historic Site. The story of the life Lincoln and his family built there returns to us through the careful work of authors Bonnie E. Paull and Richard E. Hart. Journey back in time and meet this diverse but harmonious community as it participated in the business of everyday living while gradually playing a larger role on the national stage.
Author | : Bryon C. Andreasen |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2015-03-31 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0809333821 |
Download Looking for Lincoln in Illinois Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presenting fifty Abraham Lincoln stories--some familiar and beloved, some fresh and unexpected--Looking for Lincoln in Illinois: Lincoln's Springfield is a carefully researched, richly illustrated guide to the Looking for Lincoln Story Trail.
Author | : Michael Burlingame |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643137352 |
Download An American Marriage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : 2 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Historic sites |
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Download Lincoln Home National Historic Site Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Bryon C. Andreasen |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809333856 |
Download Looking for Lincoln in Illinois Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner, ISHS Superior Achievement Award, 2016 Although they inhabited different political, social, and cultural arenas, Abraham Lincoln and the pioneer generation of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, shared the same nineteenth-century world. Bryon C. Andreasen’s Looking for Lincoln in Illinois: Lincoln and Mormon Country relates more than thirty fascinating and surprising stories that show how the lives of Lincoln and the Mormons intersected. This richly illustrated and carefully researched book expands on some of the storyboards found on the Looking for Lincoln Story Trail, from the Mormon capital of Nauvoo to the state capital of Springfield. Created by the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition, this trail consists of wayside exhibits posted in sites of significance to Lincoln’s life and career across fifty-two communities in Illinois. The book’s keyed maps, historic photos, and descriptions of battles, Mormon expeditions, and events at inns, federal buildings, and even Lincoln’s first Illinois log cabin connect the stories to their physical locations. Exploring the intriguing question of whether Lincoln and Mormon founder Joseph Smith ever met, the book reveals that they traveled the same routes and likely stayed at the same inns. The book also includes colorful and engaging looks at key figures such as Brigham Young, various Mormon apostles, and more. Anyone inspired by Lincoln, as well as Mormon and Illinois history enthusiasts, will appreciate this look back at a long-past, but not forgotten, landscape.
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Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Download Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Illinois Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Michael Burlingame |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643138146 |
Download The Black Man's President Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president” as well as “the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country.” This narrative history of Lincoln’s personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood. In a little-noted eulogy delivered shortly after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president," the "first to show any respect for their rights as men.” To justify that description, Douglass pointed not just to Lincoln's official acts and utterances, like the Emancipation Proclamation or the Second Inaugural Address, but also to the president’s own personal experiences with Black people. Referring to one of his White House visits, Douglass said: "In daring to invite a Negro to an audience at the White House, Mr. Lincoln was saying to the country: I am President of the black people as well as the white, and I mean to respect their rights and feelings as men and as citizens.” But Lincoln’s description as “emphatically the black man’s president” rests on more than his relationship with Douglass or on his official words and deeds. Lincoln interacted with many other African Americans during his presidency His unfailing cordiality to them, his willingness to meet with them in the White House, to honor their requests, to invite them to consult on public policy, to treat them with respect whether they were kitchen servants or leaders of the Black community, to invite them to attend receptions, to sing and pray with them in their neighborhoods—all those manifestations of an egalitarian spirit fully justified the tributes paid to him by Frederick Douglass and other African Americans like Sojourner Truth, who said: "I never was treated by any one with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man, Abraham Lincoln.” Historian David S. Reynolds observed recently that only by examining Lincoln’s “personal interchange with Black people do we see the complete falsity of the charges of innate racism that some have leveled against him over the years.”
Author | : Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Springfield (Ill.) |
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Author | : Katherine Menz |
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Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
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Download The Lincoln Home Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Sangamon County (Ill.) |
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Download Springfield (Sangamon County, Illinois) City Directory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle