OPINION | Claybourn: Lincoln and the limits of the executive
Abraham Lincoln changed the course of history not through brute assertion of power but by wrestling with its limits.
Efforts underway to restore crumbling site where Abraham Lincoln began his political rise
Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had been hired by a man named Denton Offutt to deliver the boat cargo to New ...
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New book reinforces Lincoln was an abolitionist long before his presidency
Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years ...
New Abraham Lincoln book focuses on debates with Stephen Douglas
Third book in planned five-part series from local author Jan Jacobi, “Lincoln and Douglas” deals with Lincoln's historic ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press6d
Review: In ‘Lincoln’s Peace,’ Michael Vorenberg searches for an end date of the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...
Boston Herald11d
Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War
Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...
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Great Americans: Abraham Lincoln
The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, shortly after the Civil War ended. It details his humble beginnings in ...
New book reinforces Lincoln was an abolitionist long before his presidency
The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case of Nance Legins-Costley, who was freed from indentured servitude by an ...