The Superlative A Lincoln

Author : Eileen R. Meyer
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781632897930

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The Superlative A. Lincoln by Eileen R. Meyer Pdf

Tallest, wisest, most studious--Lincoln was simply superlative! Get to know the personal side of Honest Abe (his LEAST FAVORITE nickname) through fresh and funny poems expressing his superlative nature. Abraham Lincoln is famous for many extremes: he was the TALLEST president, who gave the GREATEST SPEECH and had the STRONGEST conviction. But did you know that he was also the MOST DISTRACTED farmer, the BEST wrestler, and the CRAFTIEST storyteller? Nineteen poems share fascinating stories about events in Lincoln's life, while history notes go even deeper into how he excelled. Don't forget to think of all the ways you, too, are superlative!

Author : Shirley Samuels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521193160

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The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln by Shirley Samuels Pdf

Emphasizing the significance of his political and historical engagement, this work casts Abraham Lincoln as a cultural figure.

Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739171271

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The Mind and Art of Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman by David Lowenthal Pdf

By analyzing many of Lincoln's most important speeches, The Mind and Art of Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman shows him to be a profound and systematic thinker who tries to get at the root of issues, not all of them strictly political. Lowenthal emphasizes Lincoln's manner of writing, which enables him to conceal his most radical thoughts, and pays special attention to the reasoning and artfulness with which he treats a wide variety of subjects. The book follows Lincoln from his Perpetuation or Lyceum address in 1838 to his last speech just after Lee's surrender, as he confronts the great issues of the day and lays out the fundamentals of American politics. Along the way, Lowenthal's careful analysis frees Lincoln of the charge of racial prejudice with which he has been saddled in recent years.

Author : Henry Ketcham
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788184304077

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The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham Pdf

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States; serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and an event often considered its greatest moral; constitutional; and political crisis. Largely self-educated; Lincoln became a lawyer in Illinois; a Whig Party leader; and a member of the Illinois House of Representatives; in which he served for twelve years. In 1860; Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South; he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. Lincoln’s victory prompted seven southern slave states to form the Confederate States of America before he moved into the White House. Lincoln was re-elected president in November of 1864. He was shot dead on April 14; 1865. An inspiring biography of one of the greatest human beings on the earth who laid down his life for the betterment of mankind.

Author : Robert Machray
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547139300

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The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn by Robert Machray Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn" by Robert Machray. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Justin B. Litke
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813142210

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Twilight of the Republic by Justin B. Litke Pdf

The uniqueness of America has been alternately celebrated and panned, emphasized and denied, for most of the country's history -- both by its own people and by visitors and observers from around the world. The idea of "American exceptionalism" tends to provoke strong feelings, but few are aware of the term's origins or understand its true meaning. Understanding the roots and consequences of America's uniqueness requires a thorough look into the nation's history and Americans' ideas about themselves. Through a masterful analysis of important texts and key documents, Justin B. Litke investigates the symbols that have defined American identity since the colonial era. From the time of the country's founding, the people of the United States have viewed themselves as citizens of a nation blessed by God, and they accordingly sought to serve as an example to others. Litke argues that as the republic developed, Americans came to perceive their country as an active "redeemer nation," responsible for liberating the world from its failings. He introduces and contextualizes the various historical and academic claims about American exceptionalism and offers an original approach to understanding this phenomenon. Today, American historians and politicians still debate the meaning of exceptionalism. Advocates of exceptionalism are often perceived by their opponents as unrealistically patriotic, and Litke's historically and theoretically rich inquiry attempts to reconcile these political and cultural tensions. Republicans of every age have recognized that a people cut off from their history will not long persist in self-government. Twilight of the Republic aims to reinvigorate the tradition that once caused people the world over to envy the American political order.

Author : Gideon Welles
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252096433

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The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy by Gideon Welles Pdf

Gideon Welles’s 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful personalities vying for influence in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. Although Welles initially knew little of naval matters, he rebuilt a service depleted by Confederate defections, planned actions that gave the Union badly needed victories in the war’s early days, and oversaw a blockade that weakened the South’s economy. Perhaps the hardest-working member of the cabinet, Welles still found time to keep a detailed diary that has become one of the key documents for understanding the inner workings of the Lincoln administration. In this new edition, William E. and Erica L. Gienapp have restored Welles’s original observations, gleaned from the manuscript diaries at the Library of Congress and freed from his many later revisions, so that the reader can experience what he wrote in the moment. With his vitriolic pen, Welles captures the bitter disputes over strategy and war aims, lacerates colleagues from Secretary of State William H. Seward to General-in-Chief Henry Halleck, and condemns the actions of the self-serving southern elite he sees as responsible for the war. He just as easily waxes eloquent about the Navy's wartime achievements, extols the virtues of Lincoln, and drops in a tidbit of Washington gossip. Carefully edited and extensively annotated, this edition contains a wealth of supplementary material. The appendixes include short biographies of the members of Lincoln’s cabinet, the retrospective Welles wrote after leaving office covering the period missing from the diary proper, and important letters regarding naval matters and international law.

Author : Richard Carwardine
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809336142

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Lincoln's Sense of Humor by Richard Carwardine Pdf

"Abraham Lincoln was the first president consistently to make storytelling and laughter tools of office. This book shows how his uses of humor evolved to fit changing personal circumstances, and explores its versatility, range of expressions, and multiple sources"--

Author : Charles Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : PRNC:32101076517620

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The Philological and Biographical Works of Charles Butler, Esquire, of Lincoln's-Inn: Horae biblicae by Charles Butler Pdf

Author : William Marvel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469622507

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Lincoln's Autocrat by William Marvel Pdf

Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton's life, career, and legacy. Marvel argues that while Stanton was a formidable advocate and politician, his character was hardly benign. Climbing from a difficult youth to the pinnacle of power, Stanton used his authority--and the public coffers--to pursue political vendettas, and he exercised sweeping wartime powers with a cavalier disregard for civil liberties. Though Lincoln's ability to harness a cabinet with sharp divisions and strong personalities is widely celebrated, Marvel suggests that Stanton's tenure raises important questions about Lincoln's actual control over the executive branch. This insightful biography also reveals why men like Ulysses S. Grant considered Stanton a coward and a bully, who was unashamed to use political power for partisan enforcement and personal preservation.

Author : Mary Lincoln
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781429090100

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Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book by Mary Lincoln Pdf

First published in 1883, the "Boston Cook Book" became a standard in American kitchens and was widely used in cooking classrooms. Lincoln, an instructor at the Boston Cooking School, influenced a generation of cooking professionals with this comprehensive cookbook.

Author : Gideon Welles
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819574985

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A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln's Cabinet by Gideon Welles Pdf

The Civil War through the eyes of a key member of Lincoln's cabinet Gideon Welles, the Connecticut journalist-politician who served as Lincoln's secretary of the navy, was not only an architect of Union victory but also a shrewd observer of people, issues, and events. Fortunately for posterity, he recorded many of his observations in his extensive diary. A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln's Cabinet brings together 250 of the most important and interesting excerpts from the diary, dealing with topics as varied as the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Marine Band's concerts in Washington's Lafayette Square, Lincoln's sense of humor, rivalries among cabinet members, Welles's often caustic opinions of prominent politicians and military leaders, demands for creation of a navy yard in his home state, the challenge of blockading 3,500 miles of Confederate coastline, the struggle against rebel commerce raiders, the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg, the Fort Pillow massacre of African American troops, and Lincoln's assassination. Together, the excerpts provide a candid insider's view of the Civil War as it unfolded, and an introduction provides the reader with context. Published by the Acorn Club.

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743270755

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Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.

Author : Stephen Cushman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469618784

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Belligerent Muse by Stephen Cushman Pdf

War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper accounts, great speeches, and enduring literary works. In Belligerent Muse, Stephen Cushman considers the Civil War writings of five of the most significant and best known narrators of the conflict: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ambrose Bierce, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Considering their writings both as literary expressions and as efforts to record the rigors of the war, Cushman analyzes their narratives and the aesthetics underlying them to offer a richer understanding of how Civil War writing chronicled the events of the conflict as they unfolded and then served to frame the memory of the war afterward. Elegantly interweaving military and literary history, Cushman uses some of the war's most famous writers and their works to explore the profound ways in which our nation's great conflict not only changed the lives of its combatants and chroniclers but also fundamentally transformed American letters.

Author : Almeda Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190664756

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The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans by Almeda Wright Pdf

How do young African Americans approach their faith in God when continued violence and police brutality batters the news each day? In The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans, Almeda M. Wright argues that African American youth separate their everyday lives and their spirituality into mutually exclusive categories. This results in a noticeable division between their experiences of systemic injustices and their religious beliefs and practices. Yet Wright suggests that youth can and do teach the church and society myriad lessons through their theological reflections and actions. Giving special attention to the resources of African American religious and theological traditions, Wright creates a critical pedagogy for integrating spirituality into the lives of African American youth, as well as confronting and navigating spiritual fragmentation and systemic injustice.