Author: United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial CommissionPublisher: Washington : [s.n.
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln Sesquicentennial, 1959-1960
Author: United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial CommissionPublisher: Washington : [s.n.
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher: Cleveland : A. H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Lincoln Sesquicentennial, 1809-1959
Author: United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln Sesquicentennial, 1959
Author: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Association of CaliforniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln Sculpture Created by Avard T. Fairbanks
Author: Avard Tennyson FairbanksPublisher: Fairbanks Art and Books
ISBN: 0972584102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Documentary of bronze monuments, portraits, reliefs, and statuettes and the process of creating the sculpture.
Lincoln’s Hundred Days
Author: Louis P. MasurPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"The time has come now," Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a "Proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln's effort to end slavery has been controversial from its inception-when it was denounced by some as an unconstitutional usurpation and by others as an inadequate half-measure-up to the present, as historians have discounted its import and impact. At the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, Louis Masur seeks to restore the document's reputation by exploring its evolution. Lincoln's Hundred Days is the first book to tell the full story of the critical period between September 22, 1862, when Lincoln issued his preliminary Proclamation, and January 1, 1863, when he signed the final, significantly altered, decree. In those tumultuous hundred days, as battlefield deaths mounted, debate raged. Masur commands vast primary sources to portray the daily struggles and enormous consequences of the president's efforts as Lincoln led a nation through war and toward emancipation. With his deadline looming, Lincoln hesitated and calculated, frustrating friends and foes alike, as he reckoned with the anxieties and expectations of millions. We hear these concerns, from poets, cabinet members and foreign officials, from enlisted men on the front and free blacks as well as slaves. Masur presents a fresh portrait of Lincoln as a complex figure who worried about, listened to, debated, prayed for, and even joked with his country, and then followed his conviction in directing America toward a terrifying and thrilling unknown.
The Lincoln Assassination
Author: Craig L. SymondsPublisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823263959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their latest studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been previously believed), and the iconography that Lincoln’s murder and deification inspired. Contributors also offer the most up-to-date accounts of the parallel legal event of the summer of 1865—the relentless pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of the conspirators. Everything from graphic tributes to religious sermons, to spontaneous outbursts on the streets of the nation’s cities, to emotional mass-mourning at carefully organized funerals, as well as the imposition of military jurisprudence to try the conspirators, is examined in the light of fresh evidence and insightful analysis. The contributors are among the finest scholars who are studying Lincoln’s assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their thoroughness, their originality, and their writing. In addition to the editors, contributors include Thomas R. Turner, Edward Steers Jr., Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan, Elizabeth D. Leonard, and Richard Nelson Current.
The Gettysburg Gospel
Author: Gabor BorittPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743288211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Describes the events surrounding Abraham Lincoln's historic speech following the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, how he responded to the politics of the time, and the importance of that speech.
Lincoln's Mentors
Author: Michael J. GerhardtPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062877208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership “Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains how this came to be." –H.W. Brands, Wall Street Journal In 1849, when Abraham Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly uninspiring years in the U.S. House of Representatives, his political career appeared all but finished. His sense of failure was so great that friends worried about his sanity. Yet within a decade, Lincoln would reenter politics, become a leader of the Republican Party, win the 1860 presidential election, and keep America together during its most perilous period. What accounted for the turnaround? As Michael J. Gerhardt reveals, Lincoln’s reemergence followed the same path he had taken before, in which he read voraciously and learned from the successes, failures, oratory, and political maneuvering of a surprisingly diverse handful of men, some of whom he had never met but others of whom he knew intimately—Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd Stuart, and Orville Browning. From their experiences and his own, Lincoln learned valuable lessons on leadership, mastering party politics, campaigning, conventions, understanding and using executive power, managing a cabinet, speechwriting and oratory, and—what would become his most enduring legacy—developing policies and rhetoric to match a constitutional vision that spoke to the monumental challenges of his time. Without these mentors, Abraham Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer—and without Lincoln, the United States as we know it may not have survived. This book tells the unique story of how Lincoln emerged from obscurity and learned how to lead.
The Lincoln Letter
Author: William MartinPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765361639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington head to Washington, D.C., to compete against dangerous adversaries in a hunt for Abraham Lincoln's Civil War diary, a record that contains information that could change history and influence key elections.