Download or read book The Gettysburg Address written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Download or read book Abe Lincoln in Illinois written by Robert Emmet Sherwood and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1966 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The play shows in a series of scenes the critical years of Lincoln's early manhood up to the moment of his election as president. We see the backwoodsman, a failure at shopkeeping, but a great favorite with friends and neighbors, slowly
Download or read book Looking for Lincoln in Illinois written by Bryon C. Andreasen and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book relates more than thirty stories that show how the lives of Lincoln and the Mormons intersected and expands on some of the storyboards on the Looking for Lincoln Story Trail. The book's keyed maps, historic photos, and descriptions of events connect the stories to their physical locations.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln in 1854 written by Horace White and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lincoln in the Illinois Legislature written by Ron J. Keller and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this indispensable account of Abraham Lincoln’s earliest political years, Ron J. Keller reassesses Lincoln’s arguably lackluster legislative record during four terms in the Illinois House of Representatives to reveal how the underpinnings of his temperament, leadership skills, and political acumen were bolstered on the statehouse floor. Due partly to Lincoln’s own reserve and partly to an unimpressive legislative tally, Lincoln’s time in the state legislature has been largely neglected by historians more drawn to other early hallmarks of his life, including his law career, his personal life, and his single term as a U.S. congressman in the 1840s. Of about sixteen hundred bills, resolutions, and petitions passed from 1834 to 1842, Lincoln introduced only about thirty of them. The issue he most ardently championed and shepherded through the legislature—the internal improvements system—left the state in debt for more than a generation. Despite that spotty record, Keller argues, it was during these early years that Lincoln displayed and honed the traits that would allow him to excel in politics and ultimately define his legacy: honesty, equality, empathy, and leadership. Keller reanimates Lincoln’s time in the Illinois legislature to reveal the formation of Lincoln’s strong character and political philosophy in those early years, which allowed him to rise to prominence as the Whig party’s floor leader regardless of setbacks and to build a framework for his future. Lincoln in the Illinois Legislature details Lincoln’s early political platform and the grassroots campaigning that put him in office. Drawing on legislative records, newspaper accounts, speeches, letters, and other sources, Keller describes Lincoln’s positions on key bills, highlights his colleagues’ perceptions of him, and depicts the relationships that grew out of his statehouse interactions. Keller’s research delves into Lincoln’s popularity as a citizen of New Salem, his political alliances and victories, his antislavery stirrings, and his personal joys and struggles as he sharpened his political shrewdness. Keller argues Lincoln’s definitive political philosophies—economic opportunity and the right to rise, democratic equality, and to a lesser extent his hatred of slavery—took root during his legislative tenure in Illinois. Situating Lincoln’s tenure and viewpoints within the context of national trends, Keller demonstrates that understanding Lincoln’s four terms as a state legislator is vital to understanding him as a whole.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln in Peoria Illinois written by Byron Cloyd Bryner and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Ingri D'Aulaire and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier who became the sixteenth president of the United States.
Download or read book When Lincoln Came to Egypt written by George W. Smith and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Private Press, 1940.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln Today written by William Chauncy Langdon and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois written by Henry Jarvis Raymond and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Coles County Illinois written by Charles H. Coleman and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the predawn darkness of Friday, February 1, 1861, aboard a westbound train, Abraham Lincoln, left Coles County for the last time. Elected to the presidency the previous November and not yet having departed his home in Springfield for Washington, D.C., to be inaugurated, he had come on January 30 to visit his stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, and to say farewell to friends and family in Charleston and the surrounding area. He would never return. Having led the United States through the Civil War, he would die at the hand of assassin John Wilkes Booth in Washington’s Ford Theater on another Friday—April 14, 1865. This book by history scholar Charles H. Coleman explores Lincoln’s close-knit family ties in and connection to Coles County, located in east-central Illinois: the home of his father and stepmother, Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln, as well as his stepbrother John and his stepsisters, Sarah Elizabeth and Matilda, along with their families, and where Lincoln himself was a frequent visitor during his lifetime.
Download or read book How Abraham Lincoln Became President written by John McCan Davis and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illinois Life and the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln an Address at the University of Illinois Lincoln s Birthday 1896 written by A. S. Draper and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Life of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois With a Consensed View of His Most Important Speeches written by Joseph Hartwell Barrett and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Illinois Life and the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln written by A. S. Draper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Illinois Life and the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln: An Address at the University of Illinois, Lincoln's Birthday, 1896 This is not the dav. Although the temptation. Is great to tell the fascinating story of that heroic army. It went through all the horrors of an awful war to restore the Union and enforce the laws. After a contest, which in length of time and in un numbered horrors had not been anticipated, it met with complete success. While succeeding genera tions will look upon each faithful member of that grand army as a hero, coming generations will value more and more deeply the great master spirit which was behind it, which called it into being, gave it form and organization, framed the simple creed which made it a cosmopolitan army of think ing patriots, and nerved its arm for the most heroic deeds in history. That great mind never departed from its simple creed. The waves of selfishness, of supercilious self-importance, of political hate, of bigotry, all beat against him, but the rock stood the storm. The times were unusual. The whole country was a military camp. The financial 'system was overthrown. Credit was low and the government began printing its own money. The needs of the army and navy were enormous, and the business transactions were such as we had never imagined before. Greed was rampant. The writ of habeas corpus was suspended and laws were shaped to suit unusual circumstances. The resulting commotion threw all manner of minds into activity. The good and the bad the wise and the cranks, all came to the surface, and all concentrated and intensified at the presidential office but the President adhered to his simple creed and went steadily on his way. He treated all patiently, but frankly. He had an intuitive sense of proper perspective; he knew the true importance of things. Then a company of temperance people came to ask that General Grant be removed because he drank too much. He inquired what kind of liquor he drank and said he wanted to know so he could send some to other generals that they might win such victories as Grant was winning. 'temperance is a good thing, he said. But we are saving the Union now. 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.
Download or read book Lincoln in Illinois written by Octavia Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by J.C. Power and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln, his great funeral cortege, from Washington City to Springfield, Illinois. With a history and description of the National Lincoln Monument.
