Abraham Lincoln

  • Abraham Lincoln
    By George Putnam

    He came under the impression that some civil authorities would probably have remained in Richmond with whom immediate measures might be taken to stop unnecessary fighting and to secure for the city and for the State a return of peaceful ...

  • Abraham Lincoln: Recollections of a Great President: Slip-Cased Edition
    By R. B. Bernstein

    This hardback collection features beautiful illustrations, a gold-embossed cover design and colored endpapers making a truly wonderful gift.

  • Abraham Lincoln: The Making of America #3
    By Teri Kanefield

    Lincoln, Collected Works, vol. 8, quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln. “plain unpretentious plodding man” Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln (Chicago, ...

  • Abraham Lincoln: A Life
    By Michael Burlingame

    "A magisterial enterprise."—William Safire, New York Times "No review could do complete justice to the magnificent two-volume biography that has been so well-wrought by Michael Burlingame."—Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic Monthly "The ...

  • Abraham Lincoln
    By John Drinkwater

    This is the wonder, always, everywhere- Not that vast mutability which is event, The pits and pinnacles of change, But man's desire and valiance that range All circumstance, and come to port unspent.

  • Abraham Lincoln: Friend Or Foe of Freedom?
    By Thomas J. Dilorenzo, Heartland Institute, Ill.)

    Abraham Lincoln: Friend Or Foe of Freedom?

  • Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
    By Carl Sandburg

    ... good Republican party men said something about Lincoln for President he brushed it off with remarks that he wasn't fit or , as he had told. Drawn by Otto J. Schneider from Lincoln's hat and umbrella in Chicago Historical Society.

  • Abraham Lincoln
    By William H. Weik, Jesse W. Herndon

    Volume I William H. Weik, Jesse W. Herndon. Mr. Lincoln spoke at Washingtonian Hall, ... The Free-Soil paper (Henry Wilson's) refers to the meeting, mentioning Mr. Seward, but not Mr. Lincoln. The next day Mr. Lincoln left Boston for ...

  • Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
    By Allen C. Guelzo

    Redeemer President Allen C. Guelzo. ing the spiritual counsel of the newly installed pastor of Springfield's First Presbyterian Church , a Scotsman named James Smith . This selection was no accident . James Smith was born in Scotland in ...

  • Abraham Lincoln
    By George Haven Putnam

    WILLIAM CURTIS NOYES, GEORGE FOLSOM, JAMES KELLY, EDGAR KETCHUM, CHARLES A. PEABODY, HORACE GREELEY, FRANCIS HALL, HAMILTON FISH, ABIJAH MANN, JR., HENRY A. HURLBUT, JOHN JAY, GEORGE W. BLUNT, WILLIAM V. BRADY, HIRAM BARNEY, ...

  • Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths
    By Stephen B. Oates

    “There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history.” —Newsday An essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln ...

  • Abraham Lincoln
    By William H. Weik, Jesse W. Herndon

    Lincoln and Berry had been installed in business but a short time until one Reuben Radford, the proprietor of another New Salem grocery, who, happening to incur the displeasure of the Clary's Grove boys, decided suddenly one morning, ...

  • Abraham Lincoln: A Novel Life
    By Tony Wolk

    Parker retreated. He might as well have been wearing kid gloves. But to be fair he was a good enough Parker, not uncaring. e sheet of paper lay there unread, and Mary went back to her thoughts. Last week on the River Queen, ...

  • Abraham Lincoln
    By William H. Weik, Jesse W. Herndon

    Lincoln, Swett, McWilliams, of Bloomington, Voorhees, of Covington, Ind., O. L. Davis, Drake, Ward Lamon, Lawrence, ... Lamon would have whiskey in his office for the drinking ones, and those who indulged in petty gambling would get by ...

  • Abraham Lincoln
    By Lora Polack Oberle

    To clear the land for farming , Thomas taught Abraham to chop with an ax . Over time , Abraham became expert at chopping . Thomas even rented Abraham to chop for others for 25 cents a day . In 1818 , 34 - year - old Nancy Lincoln died ...

  • Abraham Lincoln: A History
    By John M. Hay, John G. Nicolay

    ... 308 ; arrangements for Lincoln's night journey, 309 ; conference with Pinkerton, Francis- cus, and Sanford, ... Shannon, 435; Woodson's proclamation against Free State legislature, 435 ; Free State legislature dispersed by Col.

  • Abraham Lincoln: An Address by William McKinley of Ohio, Before the Marquette Club, Chicago, February 12, 1896; Copy 2
    By William 1843-1901 McKinley

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

  • Abraham Lincoln
    By Tanya Lee Stone

    A biography of the great Civil War president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, including illustrations of people, places, and artifacts of the times.

  • Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl
    By Andrea Davis Pinkney

    A fictional correspondence between President Abraham Lincoln and a twelve-year-old slave girl that discusses his decision to write the Emancipation Proclamation.

  • Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life
    By William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik

    He brought to my attention the accounts in the Bible of the patriarch Abraham's marriage to Sarah, and used that ... the other was the difficulty with James Shields, or, as he expressed it in a letter to Speed, the "duel with Shields.