Abraham Lincoln In Depth
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The stakes were high for Abraham Lincoln's first political speech in New York City - and the first one in the East since he had left Congress more than a decade before. He had a reputation in the East for his seven Lincoln-Douglas debates but little exposure to Re...
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Abraham Lincoln & Freedom
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After the draft emancipation proclamation was released in September 1862, New York Evening Post Editor William Cullen Bryant editorialized: "Its puts us right before Europe....It brings back our traditions; it animates our soldiers with the same spirit which...
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Abraham Lincoln's White House
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John Watt was a talented gardener and dishonest head groundskeeper. Mary Todd Lincoln protected Watt from the accusations of others about his expense padding, just as he abetted her in misallocation of public funds. He quickly ingratiated himself with Mrs. Lincol...
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Abraham Lincoln & Friends
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Eliza Francis was the sort of mother-figure who seemed to play a prominent role in Mr. Lincoln's social cultivation in the decade leading up to his marriage in 1842. She played a critical role in reestablishing the relationship between Mary Todd and Mr. Lincoln a...
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Abraham Lincoln & New York
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The Republican National Convention was chaired by New Yorker Edwin D. Morgan who called the Convention to order in Chicago in on May 16, 1861, "before the largest, most brilliant, and most enthusiastic party gathering yet seen in the country," according to h...
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Lincoln's Contemporaries
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His friends believed Abraham Lincoln loved life on the Eighth Circuit. There was a simple camaraderie on the circuit that Mr. Lincoln enjoyed as he moved from town to town each spring and fall. "The vanity of human wishes, it appears to me, could in no case be, w...
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Featured Article
by Lewis E. LehrmanThey were big men. George Washington was 6-foot-3. Abraham Lincoln was almost 6-4. Their ambitions were equally big -- first for themselves, and then for the nation they would lead. As young men, both future presidents trained as surveyors at periods when Americans were preoccupied by the development of the frontier and the acquisition of land. Historian John Ferling wrote: "Starting around age fifteen, George learned surveying through self-help books, such as `The Young Man's Companion,' and it is probable that he was tutored by some of the surveyors employed by the Fairfaxes." In his search for self-improvement, 16-year-old Washington famously wrote out the rules for life and behavior from "Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation." That pursuit would continue the rest of his life.
Surveying helped define both men. In 1834 Abraham Lincoln was named as a deputy surveyor of Sangamon County in Illinois; George Washington had been appointed as Culpepper County surveyor in 1749. Ferling observed that, "surveying ... was a respectable and often lucrative occupation in Washington's Virginia, as the population was growing and new frontiers were opening steadily."
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About the Abraham Lincoln Institute
The Lincoln Institute provides resources for scholars and groups involved in the study of the life of America's 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, and the impact he had on the preservation of the Union, the emancipation of black slaves, and the development of democratic principles. We also encourage the use of primary sources about Abraham Lincoln for use by students and scholars along with understanding of the contemporaries with whom Lincoln worked.
Visit The Lincoln Institute sites for specific information and resources on Abraham Lincoln's life including Abraham Lincoln's White House, Abraham Lincoln & Friends, Abraham Lincoln & New York, Abraham Lincoln & Freedom, as well as Abraham Lincoln's Classroom for teacher resources.
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Lincoln at Peoria The Turning Point
by Lewis E. Lehrman
Lincoln at Peoria explains how Lincoln's speech at Peoria on October 16, 1854, was the turning point in the development of his antislavery campaign and his political career and thought. |
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May 19, 1863 President Lincoln decides to send Ohio Congressman Clement Vallandigham south to the Confederacy rather than north to Fort Warren in Boston. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles writes in his diary of today’s cabinet meeting: “The case of Vallandigham, recently arrested by General Burnside, tried by court martial, convicted of something, and […] ...Read More |  |
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