Age Of Lincoln

Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429939553

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The Age of Lincoln by Orville Vernon Burton Pdf

Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age's most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most profound. The enduring legacy of the age of Lincoln was inscribing personal liberty into the nation's millennial aspirations. America has always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s pessimism accompanied marked extremism, as Millerites predicted the Second Coming, utopianists planned perfection, Southerners made slavery an inviolable honor, and Northerners conflated Manifest Destiny with free-market opportunity. Even amid historic political compromises the middle ground collapsed. In a remarkable reappraisal of Lincoln, the distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton shows how the president's authentic Southernness empowered him to conduct a civil war that redefined freedom as a personal right to be expanded to all Americans. In the violent decades to follow, the extent of that freedom would be contested but not its central place in what defined the country. Presenting a fresh conceptualization of the defining decades of modern America, The Age of Lincoln is narrative history of the highest order.

Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1437968473

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Age of Lincoln by Orville Vernon Burton Pdf

An original account of the 7 decades, 1830 through 1900, that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age¿s most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most profound triumph. The enduring legacy of the Age of Lincoln was inscribing, with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amend., personal liberty into the nation¿s Constitution. Here, Burton argues that the president¿s authentic southernness empowered him to conduct a civil war that redefined freedom as a personal right to be extended to all Americans. Yet even as the anti-democratic policies of Jim Crow began to settle over the land, Lincoln¿s people put their faith in the law and continued to work on redrawing freedom¿s boundaries. Illustrations.

Author : Janet B. Pascal,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781440688133

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Who Was Abraham Lincoln? by Janet B. Pascal,Who HQ Pdf

Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age—literally! (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United States, he guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically shot one night at Ford’s Theater—the first President to be assassinated. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations and maps are included.

Author : George Saunders
Publisher : Random House
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812995350

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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented Named One of Paste’s Best Novels of the Decade • Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, USA Today, and Maureen Corrigan, NPR • One of Time’s Ten Best Novels of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book • One of O: The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of the Year February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end? “A luminous feat of generosity and humanism.”—Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review “A masterpiece.”—Zadie Smith

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781430130369

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A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln by David A. Adler Pdf

"This presentation of the pertinent facts of the life, times, and importance of the sixteenth president of the United States is a good starting point for children beginning history studies and biographies." - School Library Journal

Author : John R. Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:855171069

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Age of Exploration by John R. Hale Pdf

Author : Eric Foner,Olivia Mahoney
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0393306127

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A House Divided by Eric Foner,Olivia Mahoney Pdf

In conjunction with a ten-year exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society, beginning January 1990.

Author : William Nester
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612346595

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The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848-1876 by William Nester Pdf

Although Abraham Lincoln was among seven presidents who served during the tumultuous years between the end of the Mexican War and the end of the Reconstruction era, history has not been kind to the others: Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. In contrast, history sees Abraham Lincoln as a giant in character and deeds. During his presidency, he governed brilliantly, developed the economy, liberated four million people from slavery, reunified the nation, and helped enact the Homestead Act, among other accomplishments. He proved to be not only an outstanding commander in chief but also a skilled diplomat, economist, humanist, educator, and moralist. Lincoln achieved that and more because he was a master of the art of American power. He understood that the struggle for hearts and minds was the essence of politics in a democracy. He asserted power mostly by appealing to peopleÆs hopes rather than their fears. All along he tried to shape rather than reflect prevailing public opinions that differed from his own. To that end, he was brilliant at bridging the gap between progressives and conservatives by reining in the former and urging on the latter. His art of power ultimately reflected his unswerving devotion to the Declaration of IndependenceÆs principles and the ConstitutionÆs institutions, or as he so elegantly expressed it, ôto a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.ö

Author : Maria Nelson
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433963421

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The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Maria Nelson Pdf

Many consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest US president. This book explores Lincoln’s early life, including his self-taught education, law career, and influential presidency. Through age-appropriate language and content, beginning readers will learn about the Civil War and Lincoln’s inspiring leadership. Historical images and an informative timeline will enhance readers’ introduction to Lincoln’s extraordinary achievements and connect them to an important era in American history.

Author : Don H. Doyle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691256115

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The Age of Reconstruction by Don H. Doyle Pdf

A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post–Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln’s assassination set off a dramatic international reaction that drove European empires out of the Americas, hastened the end of slavery in Latin America, and ignited a host of democratic reforms in Europe. In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the United States, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies, Cubans rose against Spanish rule, France overthrew Napoleon III, and the kingdom of Pope Pius IX fell before the Italian Risorgimento. Some European liberals, including Victor Hugo and Giuseppe Mazzini, even called for a “United States of Europe.” Yet for all its achievements and optimism, this “new birth of freedom” was short-lived. By the 1890s, Reconstruction had been undone in the United States and abroad and America had become an exclusionary democracy based on white supremacy—and a very different kind of model to the world. At home and abroad, America’s Reconstruction was, as W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, “the greatest and most important step toward world democracy of all men of all races ever taken in the modern world.” The Age of Reconstruction is a bracing history of a remarkable period when democracy, having survived the great test of the Civil War, was ascendant around the Atlantic world.

Author : Orville Evjen
Publisher : Go to Publish
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1647495555

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Lincoln by Orville Evjen Pdf

This graphic novel is based early life of Abraham Lincoln from his childhood to winning the Presidency of the United States. From an early age, Lincoln loved reading and he loved reading about history. His favorite President was George Washington, our first President. Lincoln's rocky childhood and his relationship with his father are some points I emphasized in this book. Along with his religious views, Abe Lincoln had very strong views on his dislike for slavery. He spent his adult life as a lawyer fighting for the rights of others. This book also focuses on the hidden world that we never see, the spiritual world. Throughout his life Abe had a war going on around him. Through his struggle with love and family, his battle with melancholy was his most difficult. Using the realm of the supernatural is one way this book deals with his struggles. In the end, these struggles made Abe stronger for the hard years to come during the civil war. Losing his mother, sister, and then his best friend Ann Rutledge was the beginning of his dark days. But his strong will to live and his love of life pulled him through. Everywhere Abe went he was well-liked and he loved to tell funny tales. The book ends with Abe becoming the 16th President of the United States. This sets the stage for book 2 of Lincoln. Orville Evjen was born in 1974 and grew up in western South Dakota on a farm and ranch until the age of 18, then moved to North Dakota. He loves to read comics and watch cartoons, which is why illustrating is so attractive to him. His favorite subject is history, also nonfiction, but fantasy catches his eye as well. His Great Grandmother on his mother's side, (who is Native American) often spoke of ghost stories which began his curiosity for fantasy and storytelling.

Author : John G. Nicolay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1334942137

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Abraham Lincoln by John G. Nicolay Pdf

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: A History The returning warriors dropped down the river to the village of Havana - from Pekin to Havana in a canoe! The country is full of these geographical nightmares, the necessary result of freedom of nomenclature bestowed by circumstances upon minds equally destitute of taste or education. There they sold their boat, no difficult task, for a canoe was a staple article in any river-town, and again set out the old way, over the sand - ridges, for Petersburg. As we drew near home, the impulse became stronger and urged us on amazingly. The long strides of Lincoln, often slipping back in the loose sand six inches every step, were just right for me 3 and he was greatly diverted when he noticed me behind him stepping along in his tracks to keep from slipping. Thus the two comrades came back from their soldierings to their humble homes, from which Lincoln was soon to start on the way marked out for him by Providence, with strides which no com rade, with whatever good-will, might hope to follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Enrico Dal Lago
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137490124

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The Age of Lincoln and Cavour by Enrico Dal Lago Pdf

In the 19th century, both Italy and the US were young countries pursuing liberal nationalism even as unity was threatened by a recalcitrant southern population. This nuanced analysis of abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism, Lincoln and Cavour, and the nation's two civil wars provides powerful new insights into their histories.

Author : Allen Thorndike Rice
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230348018

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Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguised Men of His Time by Allen Thorndike Rice Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... XIX LINCOLN IN HISTORY HEN Anson Burlingame was in this country V V the last time he gave me an account of his life in China, his relations with the principal personages there, and said, finally, "When I die they will erect monuments and temples to my memory. However much I may now protest, they will do that." This, we are told, the people and government of China have done. Gratitude to public benefactors is the common sentiment of mankind. It has found expression in every age; it finds expression in every condition of society. Monuments and temples seem to belong to the age of art rather than to the age of letters, but reflection teaches us that letters cannot fully express the obligations of the learned, even to their chief benefactors, and only in a less degree can epitaphs, essays and histories satisfy those who have not the opportunity and culture to read and understand them. Moreover, monuments and temples in honor of the dead express the sentiments of their contemporaries who survive; and the sentiments of contemporaries, when freed from passion, crystallize, usually, into opinion--the fixed, continuing opinion of mankind. Napoleon must ever remain great; Washington, good and great; Burke, the first of English orators; the younger Pitt, the chief of English statesmen; and Henry the Eighth, a dark character in British history. Time and reflection, the competing fame of new and illustrious men, the antiquarian and the critic, may modify the first-formed opinion, but seldom or never is it changed. The judgment rendered at the grave is a just judgment usually, but whether so or not it is not often disturbed. The fame of noble men is at once the most endearing and the most valuable public possession. Of the distant past it is all of...

Author : Mark E. Neely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015028908302

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The Last Best Hope of Earth by Mark E. Neely Pdf

Based on new scholarship, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian vividly recaptures Abraham Lincoln's life and politics. Written with attention to the age in which Lincoln lived yet alert to universal moral questions, this is a portrait of Lincoln as an extraordinary man in his own time and ours. 100 illus.