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Once the President alluded to this terrible dream with some show of playful humor. ‘Hill,’ said he, ‘your apprehension of harm to me from some hidden enemy is downright foolishness. For a long time you have been trying to keep somebody–the Lord…
Abraham Lincoln in Depth
Abraham Lincoln’s Moods
“Lincoln was a curious – mysterious – quite an incomprehensible man,” wrote William H. Herndon shortly before he died... Read more View more articles
Cartoon Corner
President Lincoln enjoyed humor. Many Americans enjoyed making fun of the President. Some of the most recognizable cartoons were published in Harper’s Weekly, a New York City periodical ... Read more
Kansas Nebraska and the Senate
Mr. Lincoln’s friends had their own political pasts and their ambitions and those pasts were often in conflict.
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Abraham Lincoln, Pets and Children
Abe preached against Curelty to animals, Contending that an ants life was to it, as sweet as ours…
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President Lincolns Assassination
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was a horrific end to a horrific war…
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Lincoln "by littles"by Lewis E. Lehrman
Excerpts from
Lincoln "by littles": "The self-tutored lawyer from Illinois could not understand those 'don't care' politicians, such as Senator Stephen A. Douglas, who pretended indifference to involuntary servitude." |
Lincoln & Churchill
They were different men with different backgrounds and very different leadership styles. Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill lived through...
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