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Lincoln, Abraham

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Abraham Lincoln (the Great Emancipator ) was the sixteenth president of the United States. Born in a log cabin on the Kentucky frontier, near Hodgenville, on February 12, 1809, Lincoln has been a prominent icon since his assassination in 1865. Thousands of books and articles have been published about Lincoln, exploring all aspects of his life from his religious beliefs to his legal career. Biographical sketches of his life often seem legendary. Modern American schoolchildren learn lessons about the wisdom, humanitarianism, and virtues of Honest Abe, and his silhouette decorates classrooms every February in honor of his birthday. Cast as a martyr, Lincoln is often depicted as a flawless hero in books and movies. His contemporaries, however, viewed him differently and sometimes quite critically and hostilely. Lincoln's rustic, backwoods origins reinforced his cultural image as a moral and dutiful man. When describing his childhood in the Indiana wilderness, Lincoln emphasized that his…
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From Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
President Abraham Lincoln presents the original...
The sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln held office throughout the American Civil War (1861-1865) , a conflict that effected the abolition of slavery in the United States and ushered in an era of emancipation. Lincoln’s views on emancipation and abolition became encapsulated in…
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From Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature
William Dean HOWELL called Mark TWAIN “the L. of our literature”—an apt comparison, but based on a false distinction between “literature” and other public uses of language. L.'s writing was, except for some youthful poetry, entirely devoted to political uses—speeches, proclamations and similar…
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Full text Article Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

From Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
With malice for none, with charity for all . . . let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, . . . and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Beginning his second term as president, Abraham Lincoln delivered this address to an…
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From The Great American History Fact-Finder
Sixteenth president of the United States (1861–65) who led the nation through its greatest crisis, the Civil War . Born in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln had less than one year of formal schooling. He moved to Indiana in 1816 and then to Illinois, where he became a storekeeper and…
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From Chambers Classic Speeches
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) was born in a log cabin in Kentucky, the son of a restless pioneer. The family settled in Indiana in 1816. Two years later Abraham's mother died and his father remarried shortly afterwards. In 1830 the Lincolns moved on to Illinois and Abraham went to work as a clerk in a…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
Sixteenth US President (1861-65). Elected to the Illinois legislature for the Whig Party in 1834, he studied law. He served (1847-49) in the House of Representatives and unsuccessfully ran for the Senate for the new Republican Party against Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. He was Republican candidate for…
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Full text Article ABRAHAM LINCOLN

From Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries
It may safely be affirmed that in the history of mankind no civilized capital ever wore the aspect which, upon the receipt of the ghastly tidings of this morning, New York at this hour presents. There was excitement, doubtless, in Paris when Henry I of Navarre fell before Ravaillac’s dagger, – in…
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Full text Article LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865)

From Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas
Two elderly black women, one a former slave freed...
sixteenth president of the United States (1861-1865 ) Abraham Lincoln holds a defining place in U.S. history because of the Emancipation Proclamation, which began the formal abolition of slavery. Lincoln, however, had a very complex view of blacks in American society, resulting in mixed historical…
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Full text Article LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)

From The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories abound in the April 1865...
With one exception, the assassinations and attempted slayings of U.S. presidents and presidential candidates during the past 140 years have been officially explained as the demented acts of solitary social misfits, “lone-nut” gunmen whose crimes had involved no accomplices. The sole exception is the…
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Full text Article Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)

From Encyclopedia of Cuban-United States Relations
A lawyer and congressman from Indiana prior to becoming president of the United States from 1861–1865. Lincoln came to the presidency convinced of a southern slave conspiracy; therefore, he rejected the Democratic Party's interest in Cuba. With the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War, interest in Cuba…
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