Author: Carolyn Lawton Harrell
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865545878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Yet in the days after the assassination, Confederates gladdened by Lincoln's death feared Northern reprisals and dared not express their feelings openly. As word spread across the South, however, many ex-Confederates turned to their diaries and journals, where they poured out their fears and wrath with impunity and without restraint.
When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln
Author: Carolyn Lawton Harrell
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865545878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Yet in the days after the assassination, Confederates gladdened by Lincoln's death feared Northern reprisals and dared not express their feelings openly. As word spread across the South, however, many ex-Confederates turned to their diaries and journals, where they poured out their fears and wrath with impunity and without restraint.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865545878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Yet in the days after the assassination, Confederates gladdened by Lincoln's death feared Northern reprisals and dared not express their feelings openly. As word spread across the South, however, many ex-Confederates turned to their diaries and journals, where they poured out their fears and wrath with impunity and without restraint.
Oh, why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?
Author: William Knox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
Author: Richard Wightman Fox
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"[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 : 364
Book Description
"[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.
The Missing Link on Mary Lincoln
Author: Anne G. Snow
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 146204106X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Become a fan of Mary Lincoln by reading this shortest, yet comprehensive book which compares her life with that of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln from their births to their deaths. Their life together is one of the greatest love stories in American history. First written over fifty years ago, the author was motivated to redeem Mary Lincoln in the eyes of the fifth graders she was teaching who were getting lies from books in the library. It is time Americans show her respect.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 146204106X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Become a fan of Mary Lincoln by reading this shortest, yet comprehensive book which compares her life with that of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln from their births to their deaths. Their life together is one of the greatest love stories in American history. First written over fifty years ago, the author was motivated to redeem Mary Lincoln in the eyes of the fifth graders she was teaching who were getting lies from books in the library. It is time Americans show her respect.
Exploring Lincoln
Author: Craig L. Symonds
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 082326565X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistible. Though some 16,000 books have been written about him, there is always more to say, new aspects of his life to consider, new facets of his persona to explore. Enlightening and entertaining, Exploring Lincoln offers a selection of sixteen papers presented at the Lincoln Forum symposia over the past three years. Shining new light on particular aspects of Lincoln and his tragically abbreviated presidency, Exploring Lincoln presents a compelling snapshot of current Lincoln scholarship and a fascinating window into understanding America’s greatest president.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 082326565X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistible. Though some 16,000 books have been written about him, there is always more to say, new aspects of his life to consider, new facets of his persona to explore. Enlightening and entertaining, Exploring Lincoln offers a selection of sixteen papers presented at the Lincoln Forum symposia over the past three years. Shining new light on particular aspects of Lincoln and his tragically abbreviated presidency, Exploring Lincoln presents a compelling snapshot of current Lincoln scholarship and a fascinating window into understanding America’s greatest president.
Lincoln's God
Author: Joshua Zeitz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984882228
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Lincoln’s spiritual journey from spiritual skeptic to America's first evangelical Christian presidentbeliever—a conversion that changed both the Civil War and the practice of religion itself. Abraham Lincoln, unlike most of his political brethren, kept organized Christianity at arm’s length. He never joined a church and only sometimes attended Sunday services with his wife. But as he came to appreciate the growing political and military importance of the Christian community, and when death touched the Lincoln household in an awful, intimate way, the erstwhile skeptic effectively evolved into a believer and harnessed the power of evangelical Protestantism to rally the nation to arms. The war, he told Americans, was divine retribution for the sin of slavery. This is the story of that transformation and the ways in which religion helped millions of Northerners interpret the carnage and political upheaval of the 1850s and 1860s. Rather than focus on battles and personalities, Joshua Zeitz probes ways in which war and spiritual convictions became intertwined. Characters include the famous—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher—as well as ordinary soldiers and their families whose evolving understanding of mortality, heaven, and mission motivated them to fight. Long underestimated in accounts of the Civil War, religion—specifically evangelical Christianity—played an instrumental role on the battlefield and home front, and in the corridors of government. More than any president before him—or any president after, until George W. Bush—Lincoln harnessed popular religious enthusiasm to build broad-based support for a political party and a cause. A master politician who was sincere about his religion, Lincoln held beliefs that were unconventional—and widely misunderstood then, as now. After his death and the end of an unforgiving war, Americans needed to memorialize Lincoln as a Christian martyr. The truth was, of course, considerably more complicated, as this original book explores.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984882228
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Lincoln’s spiritual journey from spiritual skeptic to America's first evangelical Christian presidentbeliever—a conversion that changed both the Civil War and the practice of religion itself. Abraham Lincoln, unlike most of his political brethren, kept organized Christianity at arm’s length. He never joined a church and only sometimes attended Sunday services with his wife. But as he came to appreciate the growing political and military importance of the Christian community, and when death touched the Lincoln household in an awful, intimate way, the erstwhile skeptic effectively evolved into a believer and harnessed the power of evangelical Protestantism to rally the nation to arms. The war, he told Americans, was divine retribution for the sin of slavery. This is the story of that transformation and the ways in which religion helped millions of Northerners interpret the carnage and political upheaval of the 1850s and 1860s. Rather than focus on battles and personalities, Joshua Zeitz probes ways in which war and spiritual convictions became intertwined. Characters include the famous—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher—as well as ordinary soldiers and their families whose evolving understanding of mortality, heaven, and mission motivated them to fight. Long underestimated in accounts of the Civil War, religion—specifically evangelical Christianity—played an instrumental role on the battlefield and home front, and in the corridors of government. More than any president before him—or any president after, until George W. Bush—Lincoln harnessed popular religious enthusiasm to build broad-based support for a political party and a cause. A master politician who was sincere about his religion, Lincoln held beliefs that were unconventional—and widely misunderstood then, as now. After his death and the end of an unforgiving war, Americans needed to memorialize Lincoln as a Christian martyr. The truth was, of course, considerably more complicated, as this original book explores.
Lincoln
Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395518489
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. This Newbery Medal-winning biography of our Civil War president is warm, appealing, and illustrated with dozens of carefully chosen photographs and prints. Russell Freedman begins with a lively account of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood, his career as a country lawyer, and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd. Then the author focuses on the presidential years (1861 to 1865), skillfullly explaining the many complex issues Lincoln grappled with as he led a deeply divided nation through the Civil War. The book's final chapter is a moving account of that tragic evening in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Concludes with a sampling of Lincoln writings and a detailed list of Lincoln historical sites. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 2-3, Read Aloud Informational Text).
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395518489
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. This Newbery Medal-winning biography of our Civil War president is warm, appealing, and illustrated with dozens of carefully chosen photographs and prints. Russell Freedman begins with a lively account of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood, his career as a country lawyer, and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd. Then the author focuses on the presidential years (1861 to 1865), skillfullly explaining the many complex issues Lincoln grappled with as he led a deeply divided nation through the Civil War. The book's final chapter is a moving account of that tragic evening in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Concludes with a sampling of Lincoln writings and a detailed list of Lincoln historical sites. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 2-3, Read Aloud Informational Text).
U. S. Grant
Author: Joan Waugh
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898716
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings. In U. S. Grant, Joan Waugh investigates Grant's place in public memory and the reasons behind the rise and fall of his renown, while simultaneously underscoring the fluctuating memory of the Civil War itself.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898716
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings. In U. S. Grant, Joan Waugh investigates Grant's place in public memory and the reasons behind the rise and fall of his renown, while simultaneously underscoring the fluctuating memory of the Civil War itself.
The Influence of Chicago Upon Abraham Lincoln
Author: William Eleazar Barton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage
Author: Joe L. Wheeler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416550968
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416550968
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description