Author: Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits
Author: Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits, Jesse Atwood
Author: Lincoln Financial FoundationPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780366292172
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Excerpt from Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits, Jesse Atwood: Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources, From the Files of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection We hope that if you are in Chicago during the time that this exhibition is on at our gallery that we may have the pleas ure of a call from you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits
Author: Lincoln Financial FoundationPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265853498
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Excerpt from Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits: Freeman Thorp; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources The sketch was made by Colonel Freeman Thorp who commanded an Ohio regiment during the Civil war and was present at the dedicatory ceremonies at Gettysburg. The sketch was made at that time and was subsequently used as a model for several paintings of the martyred President, one of which hangs in the front lobby of the United States Senate. Congress recognized Colonel Thorp as an outstanding artist back in the '7os when it arranged for a small studio for his use on the roof of the Capitol, during which time he painted a portrait of hr. Garfield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Exhibition of the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Young's Art Galleries, Chicago, IllPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Lincoln President-Elect
Author: Harold HolzerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141659440X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency—there would be no compromise on slavery or secession of the slaveholding states, even at the cost of civil war. Abraham Lincoln first demonstrated his determination and leadership in the Great Secession Winter—the four months between his election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861—when he rejected compromises urged on him by Republicans and Democrats, Northerners and Southerners, that might have preserved the Union a little longer but would have enshrined slavery for generations. Though Lincoln has been criticized by many historians for failing to appreciate the severity of the secession crisis that greeted his victory, Harold Holzer shows that the presidentelect waged a shrewd and complex campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery while vainly trying to limit secession to a few Deep South states. During this most dangerous White House transition in American history, the country had two presidents: one powerless (the president-elect, possessing no constitutional authority), the other paralyzed (the incumbent who refused to act). Through limited, brilliantly timed and crafted public statements, determined private letters, tough political pressure, and personal persuasion, Lincoln guaranteed the integrity of the American political process of majority rule, sounded the death knell of slavery, and transformed not only his own image but that of the presidency, even while making inevitable the war that would be necessary to make these achievements permanent. Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance and private agony during these months and on the momentous consequences when he first demonstrated his determination and leadership. Holzer recasts Lincoln from an isolated prairie politician yet to establish his greatness, to a skillful shaper of men and opinion and an immovable friend of freedom at a decisive moment when allegiance to the founding credo "all men are created equal" might well have been sacrificed.
The Hamiltonian
Author: The Lincoln Conspiracy
Author: Brad MeltzerPublisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250317487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on the sixteenth president in The Lincoln Conspiracy. Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The conspirators were part of a white supremacist secret society that didn’t want an abolitionist in the White House. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate the President-elect in Baltimore as Lincoln’s inauguration train passed through, en route to the nation's capital. The plot was investigated by famed detective Allan Pinkerton, who infiltrated the group with undercover agents, including Kate Warne, one of the first female private detectives in America. Had the assassination succeeded, there would have been no Lincoln Presidency and the course of the Civil War and American history would have forever been altered.
Abraham Lincoln
Author: Michael BurlingamePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801889936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2028
Book Description
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's life during his presidency and the Civil War, narrating in fascinating detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln's own battles with relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new interpretations of Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease. But through it all—his difficult childhood, his contentious political career, a fratricidal war, and tragic personal losses—Lincoln preserved a keen sense of humor and acquired a psychological maturity that proved to be the North's most valuable asset in winning the Civil War. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this landmark publication establishes Burlingame as the most assiduous Lincoln biographer of recent memory and brings Lincoln alive to modern readers as never before.
Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits
Author: Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259983897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Excerpt from Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits: William T. Matthews; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources From the Files of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Matthews removed the painting in disgust, and kept it with him until his death. At that point, the artist's brother Charles tried unsuccessfully to sell the canvas. Then finally, in reduced circumstances, he used the life size Lincoln as collateral for a $250 loan. Charles Mat thews never repayed that loan and his brother's Lincoln portrait was not seen again until an American in Eng land who bought and sold antiques picked the painting up. That American was the brother of the Commack, Long Island woman who decided to have a garage sale two years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits
Author: Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266911449
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Excerpt from Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits: David B. Bowser; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Mooney. Director of the Historical Society, points out that reconstruct ing black history is problematical because there is a fair amount of nonverbal material one has to rely on Since very few blacks were able to publish their own stories tn the early period. You're left with a dependence on third party reporting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.