As a young man, Lincoln had taken flatboat trips down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. While traveling, he saw other boats become unavoidably grounded on sandbars that were created by the river's shifting currents. His interest sparked by the sight, Linc...
Sixteenth president of the United States and president during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was immortalized by his Emancipation Proclamation, his Gettysburg Address, and two outstanding inaugural addresses. Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb....
Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES Columnist Cal Thomas' reference to Abraham Lincoln in "Habitual offender ... putting GOP to the test" (Commentary, Sunday) seems to have elicited a somewhat expected if not old response highlighting Lincoln's 19th-century views on civil rights ("Honestly Abe," Letters,...
Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES In his judicious review of Thomas DiLorenzo's assault on Abraham Lincoln, Mackubin Thomas Owens makes one crucial error: He attempts to identify the best example of Mr. DiLorenzo "pulling a fast one" with history, logic and interpretation ("Real Lincoln...
A battered old hat, a pair of stained gloves, a child's silly rhyme _ hardly the stuff of history.Except that this hat is a stovepipe hat, the gloves are stained with a president's blood and the rhyme was written by a young Abraham Lincoln.All three...
