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For the last ten years of his life, however, Barton was best known to the public as a prolific author and lecturer on Abraham Lincoln. His publications about Lincoln included The Soul of Abraham Lincoln (1920), The Paternity of Abraham Lincoln (1920), The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1925), The Great and Good Man (1927), The Women Lincoln Loved (1927), and The Lincoln of the Biographers (1930).
Called “Mother” by Mr. Lincoln, Mary Todd was the fourth child of Robert and Eliza Parker Todd. Raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Mary came to Springfield, Illinois to visit her sisters in 1840. After a tumultuous courtship, she married Abraham Lincoln on November 4, 1842. Often self-absorbed and petulant, she was nonetheless devoted to her ...
Historian R. Steven Jones wrote: “An exchange between Grant and Abraham Lincoln on March 29, 1864, shows just how adamant Grant was that his new staffers be well qualified. Lincoln had recommended a friend, a Captain Kinney, for a position on Grant’s staff. Grant, mistakenly calling the man Kennedy, refused.
Abraham Lincoln est un avocat de province dont l'éloquence, reconnue par ses contemporains [1], lui vaut ses premiers mandats électoraux à la Chambre des représentants de l'Illinois, puis à celle des États-Unis [2].L’élection de ce républicain abolitionniste à la présidence, en 1860, entraîne la création des États confédérés d'Amérique et, peu après, la guerre de Sécession.
His compassion extended to turkeys, too. Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation on October 3, 1863, setting aside the last Thursday of November, “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise.” A turkey was sent to the White House for Thanksgiving dinner in 1863, and Tad, Lincoln’s son, named him Tom.
Abraham Lincoln was the first humorist to occupy the White House. "He could make a cat laugh!" exclaimed Bill Green. 1 "It was as a humorist that he towered above all other men it was ever my lot to meet," said another friend from Lincoln's youth. 2 H. C. Whitney, a lawyer who rode the circuit with Lincoln in Illinois, was struck by
“Uncle Sam” making new arrangements. Title: “Uncle Sam” making new arrangements Year: 1860 Creator: Currier & Ives. Description: Probably issued late in the campaign, the print seems to express the growing confidence among Republicans in the election of their candidate Abraham Lincoln. It may also be that like “The National Game” (no. 1860-42) the print was published after the ...
