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Lincoln was essentially self-taught. His appetite for reading was voracious, but, because few books were available to him in his youth, he was a careful rather than an extensive reader. He was determined to learn how to write and speak effectively and, to achieve those goals, read and memorized Kirkham’s Grammar, which he is said […]
[Homepage] Lincoln Speaks
Lincoln Speaks Lincoln Speaks: Words That Transformed a Nation, an exhibition co-organized by the Morgan Library & Museum and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, will be on display at the Morgan Library & Museum, January 23 through June 7, 2015. More than eighty items from his remarkable life–speeches, letters, legal writings, personal notes, […]
Timeline
Timeline March 1857: Supreme Courts issues Dred Scott Decision which declares unconstitutional the Missouri Compromise of 1820. December 4, 1860: Sen. John Crittenden (D-KY), proposes… Abraham Lincoln and Freedom
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Douglass was not a proponent of any compromise where slavery was concerned, but his interaction with Mr. Lincoln convinced him over time of the wisdom of the President’s deliberate movements toward emancipation… Abraham Lincoln and Freedom >
Salmon P. Chase
Salmon P. Chase Chase was as difficult as he was capable. Pennsylvania editor Alexander K. McClure wrote: “Salmon P. Chase was the most irritating fly in the Lincoln ointment from the inauguration of the new administration in 1861 until the…” Abraham Lincoln and Freedom >
Montgomery Blair
Montgomery Blair Postmaster General Montgomery Blair was the most conservative member of the Lincoln Cabinet on racial issues. Journalist Edward Dicey wrote for his English audience in 1861: “Beside the Abolitionists and the Democrats, there was…” Abraham Lincoln and Freedom >
Mr. Lincoln’s Contemporaries
Mr. Lincoln’s Contemporaries Mr. Lincoln not only had to manage the slavery issue, he had to manage a wide spectrum of opinion about the slavery issue among Union supporters. As President, he did not have a great deal of experience with… Abraham Lincoln and Freedom >
Entering Richmond
Entering Richmond On Monday, April 3, 1865, General Ulysses Grant invited President Lincoln to join him in Petersburg, the key Confederate city below Richmond whose liberation made continued Confederate control of the region… Abraham Lincoln and Freedom >
Speech at Columbus (con’t)
Speech at Columbus (con’t) “Compromise! What word of compromise was there about it? Why the public sense was then in favor of the abolition of the slave trade; but there was at the time a very great commercial interest involved in it and extensive capital in…” Abraham Lincoln and Freedom >
Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859
Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859 “I cannot fail to remember that I appear for the first time before an audience in this now great State–an audience that is accustomed to hear such speakers as Corwin, and Chase, and Wade, and many other renowned men; and remembering this…” Abraham Lincoln and Freedom >