Article: The Most Consequential Elections in History: Abraham Lincoln's Victory in 1864 Led to the End of the Civil War; Lincoln's victory in 1860 triggered the Civil War, and his victory in 1864 allowed him to win it.

Article: Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency.(Book review)
Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency. By William C. Harris. (Lawrence...1520-9.) This is the third large-scale work on Abraham Lincoln by the genial and meticulous William C. Harris, following hard on the heels of With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union (Lexington, Ky., 1997...

Article: Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency
The Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency. By William C. Harris. (Lawrence...1520-9.) This is the third large-scale work on Abraham Lincoln by the genial and meticulous William C. Harris, following hard on the heels of With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union (Lexington, Ky., 1997...

Article: Lincoln (2006)
Film & History;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Lincoln (2006) Abraham Lincoln is assuredly one of the most elusive individuals to grasp. In the History Channel's newest biography, Lincoln, the sixteenth president describes himself in one of his letters as...

Article: Lincoln, depression, and greatness: the story of a man who joined great pain and great power.(Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness)(Book review)
Saturday Evening Post;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk, 350 pages, Houghton...Socrates. Had Aristotle lived in a later millennium, he might well have included another great man on his list, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's dismally low spirits, well chronicled in ...

Article: Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith.(Book Review)
Church History;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith. By Joseph R. Fornieri...positive--developments in the field of Lincoln studies, including fresh and valuable...important but frustratingly elusive subject of Lincoln's religious thought. In 1987, in a Gettysburg...

Article: Lincoln
The Journal of Southern History;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Lincoln. By Richard J. Carwardine. Profiles in Power. (Harlow...lights followed a few simple patterns. Students of Abraham Lincoln have in the past decade experienced a similar run of "luck...its place on the shelf of nearly ten thousand books about Lincoln, yet each one worthwhile. Philip Shaw Paludan, ...

Article: Lincoln.(Book Review)
Journal of Southern History;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Lincoln. By Richard J. Carwardine. Profiles in Power. (Harlow...lights followed a few simple patterns. Students of Abraham Lincoln have in the past decade experienced a similar run of luck...its place on the shelf of nearly ten thousand books about Lincoln, yet each one worthwhile. Philip Shaw Paludan, Mark ...

Article: LINCOLN THE LAWYER1
The Army Lawyer;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...LINCOLN THE LAWYER1 Grease does not favor one cog over another...little parts. . . . The enemy is friction.3 Before Abraham Lincoln became known as "the railsplitting frontiersman," "the...twenty-five years.4 Despite the myriad books written about Lincoln and the well known fact that he was an attorney ...

Article: 3 Minutes That Made History // How Lincoln Changed the American Mission
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 21, 1992 ;     700+ words ...Lincoln at Gettysburg The Words that Remade America. By Garry Wills. Simon & Schuster...were brief. But it was a powerful message. In less than three minutes, Abraham Lincoln redefined America. Garry Wills has written a masterful and definitive study of Lincoln at Gettysburg, one that is particularly good ...

Article: Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency
The Journal of Southern History;  November 1, 2004 ;     675 words ...Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency. Edited by Charles M. Hubbard. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 236. $29.95, ISBN 0-86554-817-X.) These collected essays are based on papers presented at the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum's 2001 Lincoln Symposium. They address how Lincoln's ...

Article: Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency.(Book Review)
Journal of Southern History;  November 1, 2004 ;     668 words ...Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency. Edited by Charles M. Hubbard. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 236. $29.95, ISBN 0-86554817-X.) These collected essays are based on papers presented at the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum's 2001 Lincoln Symposium. They address how Lincoln's ...

Article: Lincoln the literary leader
Chicago Sun-Times (IL);  February 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ...LINCOLN THE BIOGRAPHY OF A WRITER By Fred Kaplan HarperCollins...out the window (if there even was a window). Young Abe Lincoln, reading by firelight in the one-room log cabin, may be...most cherished scenes. But, according to Fred Kaplan in Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, Lincoln never would ...

Article: Lincoln's Hometown Outraged by Assertions Abe Was Gay
Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  June 24, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Lincoln's Hometown Outraged by Assertions Abe Was Gay zB1 By Stephanie...SPRINGFIELD -- The newspaper here runs a picture of Abraham Lincoln on its masthead, right next to the list of top editors...himself, praising the paper as "always my friend." Loyalty to Lincoln clearly ranks high here. Which is why ...

Article: Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory. By Barry...book suggests, it is not about Abraham Lincoln the man and his times, but about his memory...chronicle and explanation of the rise of Lincoln's popularity during the progressive era...