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Last Photograph of Abraham Lincoln six weeks before his death
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The Last Portrait of Lincoln, Painted Two Weeks before His Death
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Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
Author: Richard Wightman Fox
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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"[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling." —Jill Lepore, New York Times Book Review Abraham Lincoln remains America’s most beloved leader. The fact that he was lampooned in his day as "ugly and grotesque" only made Lincoln more endearing to millions. In Lincoln’s Body, acclaimed cultural historian Richard Wightman Fox explores how deeply, and how differently, Americans—black and white, male and female, Northern and Southern—have valued our sixteenth president, from his own lifetime to the Hollywood biopics about him. Lincoln continues to survive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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"[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling." —Jill Lepore, New York Times Book Review Abraham Lincoln remains America’s most beloved leader. The fact that he was lampooned in his day as "ugly and grotesque" only made Lincoln more endearing to millions. In Lincoln’s Body, acclaimed cultural historian Richard Wightman Fox explores how deeply, and how differently, Americans—black and white, male and female, Northern and Southern—have valued our sixteenth president, from his own lifetime to the Hollywood biopics about him. Lincoln continues to survive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.
Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Nine Hours Before Death
Author: Tina Gilliam-glessner
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ISBN: 9781681646435
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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A one-in-a-million discovery of a small but very fascinating image; the more it was examined, the more intriguing it became. It is an intricate examination of a photo, deemed to be an unimportant image of death but was also a secret photo that had been hidden for 157 years. This is the story of the discovery of a truly unique piece of history, the process and challenges that were required to bring it into its rightful place in history.
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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A one-in-a-million discovery of a small but very fascinating image; the more it was examined, the more intriguing it became. It is an intricate examination of a photo, deemed to be an unimportant image of death but was also a secret photo that had been hidden for 157 years. This is the story of the discovery of a truly unique piece of history, the process and challenges that were required to bring it into its rightful place in history.
Our American Cousin
Author: Tom Taylor
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.
From a photograph of Mr. Lincoln taken six weeks before his assassination
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Author: Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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Lincoln's Last Hours
Author: Charles Augustus Leale
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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the century illustrated monthly magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Pages : 986
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