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...

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...

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...

Lincoln, depression, and greatness: the story of a man who joined great...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.

Church History;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. By Allen C. Guelzo...the making of many books about Abraham Lincoln, there is no end. Why then do we need...College, gives us more of the particulars of Lincoln's life than previous scholars or that...

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 ...

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 ...

Language was a building block of Lincoln's presidency

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  February 25, 2007 ;     584 words ..."Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words" by...than 16,000 books written about the life of Abraham Lincoln. With all the ink expended to document every detail of Lincoln's life in the past 142 years, authors face a daunting...

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 ...

Lincoln on Lincoln

South Carolina Historical Magazine;  October 1, 2000 ;     401 words ...Lincoln on Lincoln. By Paul M. Zall. (Lexington, KY: The University of Kentucky Press, 1999. Pp. 216. $25.00, cloth.) Paul Zall's first book, Abe Lincoln Laughing, is the best collection in existence of Lincoln's humor. In that...

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 ...