Land Of Lincoln

Author : Andrew Ferguson
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781555848514

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Land of Lincoln by Andrew Ferguson Pdf

“Brilliant . . . Ferguson’s guided tour of the often amusing, sometimes bizarre ways we remember Lincoln today . . . is heartening and even inspiring.” —Bill Kristol, Time Abraham Lincoln was our greatest president and perhaps the most influential American who ever lived. But what is his place in our country today? In Land of Lincoln, Andrew Ferguson packs his bags and embarks on a journey to the heart of contemporary Lincoln Nation, where he encounters a world as funny as it is poignant, and a population as devoted as it is colorful. In small-town Indiana, Ferguson drops in on the national conference of Lincoln presenters, 175 grown men who make their living (sort of) by impersonating their hero. He meets the premier collectors of Lincoln memorabilia, prized items of which include Lincoln’s chamber pot, locks of his hair, and pages from a boyhood schoolbook. He takes his wife and children on a trip across the long-defunct Lincoln Heritage Trail, a driving tour of landmarks from Lincoln’s life. This book is an entertaining, unexpected, and big-hearted celebration of Lincoln’s enduring influence on our country—and the people who help keep his spirit alive. “A hilarious, offbeat tour of Lincoln shrines, statues, cabins and museums . . . Mr. Ferguson maps it expertly, with an understated Midwestern sense of humor that Lincoln, master of the funny story, would have been the first to appreciate.” —William Grimes, The New York Times

Author : Frank Cicero Jr.
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252050343

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Creating the Land of Lincoln by Frank Cicero Jr. Pdf

In its early days, Illinois seemed destined to extend the American South. Its population of transplants lived an upland southern culture and in some cases owned slaves. Yet the nineteenth century and three constitutions recast Illinois as a crucible of northern strength and American progress. Frank Cicero Jr. provides an appealing new history of Illinois as expressed by the state's constitutions—and the lively conventions that led to each one. In Creating the Land of Lincoln, Cicero sheds light on the vital debates of delegates who, freed from electoral necessity, revealed the opinions, prejudices, sentiments, and dreams of Illinoisans at critical junctures in state history. Cicero simultaneously analyzes decisions large and small that fostered momentous social and political changes. The addition of northern land in the 1818 constitution, for instance, opened up the state to immigrant populations that reoriented Illinois to the north. Legislative abuses and rancor over free blacks influenced the 1848 document and the subsequent rise of a Republican Party that gave the nation Abraham Lincoln as its president. Cicero concludes with the 1870 constitution, revealing how its dialogues and resolutions set the state on the modern course that still endures today.

Author : Thomas Henshaw
Publisher : Academic Learning Company LLC
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0832905038

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The History of Winchester Firearms 1866-1992 by Thomas Henshaw Pdf

Photographs and text present the history of the Winchester firearm, including their rifles, shotguns and revolvers beginning in 1866 to 1992.

Author : Olivier Frayssé
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Land use
ISBN : 0252019792

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Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-60 by Olivier Frayssé Pdf

In Lincoln, Land, and Labor the French scholar Olivier Fraysse traces Lincoln's problematic relationship with and ideas about the land and those who worked it, revealing Lincoln as an intelligent and ambitious man who in fact turned his back on his rural roots for a time in favor of the opportunities offered in law and politics.

Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UIUC:30112059887239

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1530 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : NYPL:33433016643771

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Cantwell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bluegrass music
ISBN : 0252071174

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Bluegrass Breakdown by Robert Cantwell Pdf

Bluegrass music is an original characterization, simply called a 'representation, ' of traditional Appalachian music in its social form.

Author : Dan Guillory
Publisher : Mayhaven Pub
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1932278648

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People and Places in the Land of Lincoln by Dan Guillory Pdf

Dan Guillory provides this useful and informative book through his clarity and readability for those who will want to explore the Land of Lincoln

Author : Frank Cicero Jr.
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0252041674

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Creating the Land of Lincoln by Frank Cicero Jr. Pdf

In its early days, Illinois seemed destined to extend the American South. Its population of transplants lived an upland southern culture and in some cases owned slaves. Yet the nineteenth century and three constitutions recast Illinois as a crucible of northern strength and American progress. Frank Cicero Jr. provides an appealing new history of Illinois as expressed by the state's constitutions—and the lively conventions that led to each one. In Creating the Land of Lincoln, Cicero sheds light on the vital debates of delegates who, freed from electoral necessity, revealed the opinions, prejudices, sentiments, and dreams of Illinoisans at critical junctures in state history. Cicero simultaneously analyzes decisions large and small that fostered momentous social and political changes. The addition of northern land in the 1818 constitution, for instance, opened up the state to immigrant populations that reoriented Illinois to the north. Legislative abuses and rancor over free blacks influenced the 1848 document and the subsequent rise of a Republican Party that gave the nation Abraham Lincoln as its president. Cicero concludes with the 1870 constitution, revealing how its dialogues and resolutions set the state on the modern course that still endures today.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : PSU:000011967958

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Consumer Benefits Associated with the Changing Financial Services Environment by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210014966657

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Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act--controlled Business by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development Pdf

Author : United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission
Publisher : Washington : [s.n.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015016756549

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Abraham Lincoln Sesquicentennial, 1959-1960 by United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission Pdf

Author : Charles Titus
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780252052583

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Exploring the Land of Lincoln by Charles Titus Pdf

Discovering Illinois through twenty of the state's most important places ​A one-of-a-kind travel guide, Exploring the Land of Lincoln invites road-trippers and history buffs to explore the Prairie State's most extraordinary historic sites. Charles Titus blends storytelling with in-depth research to highlight twenty must-see destinations selected for human drama, historical and cultural relevance, and their far-reaching impact on the state and nation. Maps, illustrations, and mileage tables encourage readers to create personal journeys of exploration to, and beyond, places like Cahokia, the Lincoln sites, Nauvoo, and Chicago's South Side Community Art Center. Detailed and user-friendly, Exploring the Land of Lincoln is the only handbook you need for the sights and stories behind the names on the map of Illinois.

Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809335824

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Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas by Allen C. Guelzo Pdf

Despite the most meager of formal educations, Lincoln had a tremendous intellectual curiosity that drove him into the circle of Enlightenment philosophy and democratic political ideology. And from these, Lincoln developed a set of political convictions that guided him throughout his life and his presidency. This compilation of ten essays from Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo uncovers the hidden sources of Lincoln’s ideas and examines the beliefs that directed his career and brought an end to slavery and the Civil War.