Lincoln S Rail Splitter

Author : Mark A. Plummer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Governors
ISBN : 0252026497

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Lincoln's Rail-splitter by Mark A. Plummer Pdf

Like Lincoln, Oglesby was born in Kentucky and spent most of his youth in central Illinois, apprenticing as a lawyer in Springfield and standing for election to the Illinois legislature Congress, and U.S. Senate. Oglesby participated in the battles of Cerro Gordo and Vera Cruz during the Mexican-American War and made a small fortune in the gold rush of 1849. A superlative speaker, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in a campaign that featured the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, then was elected to the Illinois senate as Lincoln was being elected president.

Author : Gary L. Bunker
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873387015

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From Rail-splitter to Icon by Gary L. Bunker Pdf

A copiously illustrated history of the development of Lincoln's public profile. From Rail-Splitter to Icon is enriched by editorial, news, poetic, and satirical content from contemporary periodicals artfully woven into a topical narrative. The Lincoln images, originally appearing in such publications as Budget of Fun, Comic Monthly, New York Illustrated News, Phunny Phellow, Southern Punch, and Yankee Notions, significantly expand our understanding of the evolution of public opinion toward Lincoln, the complex dynamics of Civil War, popular art and culture, the media, political caricature, and presidential politics. Because of the timely emergence and proliferation of the illustrated periodical, and the convergence of representational technology and sectional conflict, no previous president could have been pictured so fully. But Lincoln also appealed to illustrators because of his distinctive physical features. (One could scarcely conceive of a similar book on James Buchanan, his immediate predecessor.) Despite ever-improving techniques, Lincoln pictorial prominence competed favorably with any succeeding president in the nineteenth century.

Author : Charles Fuhrken
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781571107640

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What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know about Reading Tests (from Someone who Has Written Them) by Charles Fuhrken Pdf

The content of tests can be puzzling to students and teachers alike. While a state test purports to measure the curriculum, often the curriculum standards seem mysterious as well--written in code or so general in meaning that it seems impossible for teachers to know if their instruction will adequately prepare their students. --Charles Fuhrken When he was a student struggling to concentrate on dreadfully boring passages of standardized reading tests, Charles Fuhrken remembers thinking to himself, "Who writes this stuff?" He had no idea that one day it would be him. Fuhrken has spent years working as a writer for several major testing companies, and he believes that what he's learned about testing could be very useful--even liberating--for teachers interested in teaching effective reading strategies as well as preparing students for reading tests. In What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests, Charles takes the mystery out of reading tests. He explains how reading tests are created, how standards are interpreted and assessed, and how students can apply their knowledge of reading to standardized tests. What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests sets the record straight about the myths and realities of tests and offers extensive, practical strategies that help students perform well on test day. This ready to use, easy to understand resource provides a wealth of information about reading tests, including high-quality preparation materials; samples of the most frequently assessed reading standards; and more than thirty engaging, core-reading activities. Tests require a special kind of savvy, a kind of critical thinking and knowledge-application that is not always a part of classroom reading experiences. That's why teachers need to provide students with sound, specific information about reading tests. Only then can students feel prepared and confident on test day.

Author : William Eleazar Barton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000130920998

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Lincoln, the Young Rail-splitter ... by William Eleazar Barton Pdf

Author : Brian McGinty
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640126060

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Lincoln and California by Brian McGinty Pdf

Lincoln and California portrays the previously unrecognized ties between President Abraham Lincoln and the Golden State, portraying his key relationships with close friends and personal acquaintances that helped influence the imperiled Union.

Author : Heritage-Slater Americana
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1932899677

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Political and Americana Memorabilia by Heritage-Slater Americana Pdf

Author : Shawn J. Parry-Giles,David S. Kaufer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271079981

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Memories of Lincoln and the Splintering of American Political Thought by Shawn J. Parry-Giles,David S. Kaufer Pdf

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Republicans and Democrats who advocated conflicting visions of American citizenship could agree on one thing: the rhetorical power of Abraham Lincoln’s life. This volume examines the debates over his legacy and their impact on America’s future. In the thirty-five years following Lincoln’s assassination, acquaintances of Lincoln published their memories of him in newspapers, biographies, and edited collections in order to gain fame, promote partisan aims, champion his hardscrabble past and exalted rise, and define his legacy. Shawn Parry-Giles and David Kaufer explore how style, class, and character affected these reminiscences. They also analyze the ways people used these writings to reinforce their beliefs about citizenship and presidential leadership in the United States, with specific attention to the fissure between republicanism and democracy that still exists today. Their study employs rhetorical and corpus research methods to assess more than five hundred reminiscences. A novel look at how memories of Lincoln became an important form of political rhetoric, this book sheds light on how divergent schools of U.S. political thought came to recruit Lincoln as their standard-bearer.

Author : David B. Sachsman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351534604

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A Press Divided by David B. Sachsman Pdf

A Press Divided provides new insights regarding the sharp political divisions that existed among the newspapers of the Civil War era. These newspapers were divided between North and South, and also divided within the North and South. These divisions reflected and exacerbated the conflicts in political thought that caused the Civil War and the political and ideological battles within the Union and the Confederacy about how to pursue the war. In the North, dissenting voices alarmed the Lincoln administration to such a degree that draconian measures were taken to suppress dissenting newspapers and editors, while in the South, the Confederate government held to its fundamental belief in freedom of speech and was more tolerant of political attacks in the press. This volume consists of eighteen chapters on subjects including newspaper coverage of the rise of Lincoln, press reports on George Armstrong Custer, Confederate women war correspondents, Civil War photojournalists, newspaper coverage of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the suppression of the dissident press. This book tells the story of a divided press before and during the Civil War, discussing the roles played by newspapers in splitting the nation, newspaper coverage of the war, and the responses by the Union and Confederate administrations to press criticism.

Author : Barry Schwartz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226741974

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Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory by Barry Schwartz Pdf

Abraham Lincoln has long dominated the pantheon of American presidents. From his lavish memorial in Washington and immortalization on Mount Rushmore, one might assume he was a national hero rather than a controversial president who came close to losing his 1864 bid for reelection. In Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory, Barry Schwartz aims at these contradictions in his study of Lincoln's reputation, from the president's death through the industrial revolution to his apotheosis during the Progressive Era and First World War. Schwartz draws on a wide array of materials—painting and sculpture, popular magazines and school textbooks, newspapers and oratory—to examine the role that Lincoln's memory has played in American life. He explains, for example, how dramatic funeral rites elevated Lincoln's reputation even while funeral eulogists questioned his presidential actions, and how his reputation diminished and grew over the next four decades. Schwartz links transformations of Lincoln's image to changes in the society. Commemorating Lincoln helped Americans to think about their country's development from a rural republic to an industrial democracy and to articulate the way economic and political reform, military power, ethnic and race relations, and nationalism enhanced their conception of themselves as one people. Lincoln's memory assumed a double aspect of "mirror" and "lamp," acting at once as a reflection of the nation's concerns and an illumination of its ideals, and Schwartz offers a fascinating view of these two functions as they were realized in the commemorative symbols of an ever-widening circle of ethnic, religious, political, and regional communities. The first part of a study that will continue through the present, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory is the story of how America has shaped its past selectively and imaginatively around images rooted in a real person whose character and achievements helped shape his country's future.

Author : Maurice Manning
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322127

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Railsplitter by Maurice Manning Pdf

Railsplitter, the seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Maurice Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Manning, who writes each piece in Lincoln’s persona, provides a lasting reflection on how poetry guided and shaped the President’s mind while leading a divided nation. Equal parts prophetic and rich in both rural folklore and literary allusions—from Shakespeare, to Whitman, to Poe, to the comedic—Railsplitter transcends the darkness of Lincoln’s time, to imagine a new lore entirely—one comprised of buzzard feather quills, horse treats in a top hat, and finally, a fateful bullet. Lincoln, who was born nearby to Maurice Manning’s childhood home in Kentucky, is alive again, in new form.

Author : Charles Lachman
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781402774485

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The Last Lincolns by Charles Lachman Pdf

“This engaging book traces three generations of Abraham Lincoln’s descendants in the century following his assassination . . . notable for its liveliness” (Publishers Weekly). Most books about Abraham Lincoln end with his assassination. But that historic event is where this book begins. The Last Lincolns tells the largely unknown tale of the Lincoln family’s fall from grace in the years and generations following the president’s murder. Far from coming together in mourning, the Lincolns became deeply divided over the widowed Mary’s mental condition. In 1875, the eldest son Robert had her committed to an insane asylum. In each succeeding generation, the Lincolns’ misfortunes multiplied, as acrimony, alcohol abuse, and squandered fortunes led to the family’s downfall. Charles Lachman traces the story to the last generation: great-grandson Bob Lincoln Beckwith, his estranged wife, Annemarie, and her son, Timothy Lincoln Beckwith. Though Timothy bears the Lincoln name, his own father believes he was the product of adultery. There’s even evidence—uncovered by Lachman—that the notorious outlaw D.B. Cooper may have orchestrated a scheme to obtain the Lincoln fortune.

Author : Gerald J. Prokopowicz
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307279293

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Did Lincoln Own Slaves? by Gerald J. Prokopowicz Pdf

In the bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth, here is the one indispensable book that provides all you need to know about our most revered president in a lively and memorable question-and-answer format.You will learn whether Lincoln could dunk a basketball or tell a joke. Was he the great emancipator or a racist? If he were alive today, could he get elected? Did he die rich? Did scientists raise Lincoln from the dead? From the seemingly lighthearted to the most serious Gerald Prokopowicz tackles each question with balance and authority, and weaves a complete, satisfying biography that will engage young and old, scholars and armchair historians alike.

Author : American Numismatic Society (1907- )
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : CORNELL:31924093034555

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Proceedings of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society by American Numismatic Society (1907- ) Pdf

Author : American Numismatic Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100117365

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Proceedings of the American Numismatic and Archeological Society by American Numismatic Society Pdf

Author : William D. Pederson,Frank J. Williams,Robert P. Watson, Lynn University; author of Affairs of State, The Presidents’ Wives, and America’s First Crisis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739149911

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Lincoln's Enduring Legacy by William D. Pederson,Frank J. Williams,Robert P. Watson, Lynn University; author of Affairs of State, The Presidents’ Wives, and America’s First Crisis Pdf

This collection of highly readable and accessible essays on Lincoln's legacy offers a wide array of perspectives on the enduring impact of the nation's greatest president on leaders, thinkers, and American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds have influenced the pursuit of justice and freedom and the practice of democracy in the century and a half since he governed.