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....
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings ABRAHAM LINCOLN was the nation's tragic hero. No American has ever climbed over so many obstacles to rise so high; none has fallen so precipitously at the moment of his triumph. In the nearly 125 years since his...
The views of Abraham Lincoln on the issues that brought the war are admirably elucidated in Waldo W. Branden's Abraham Lincoln, Public Speaker (Louisina State University Press, $8.95). Branden explores Lincoln's rhetorical technique in relation to the subject matter of his speeches. Peter J....
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