Among the books on the new non-fiction shelves at the central library, I found a few gems, including Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Warriors: The True Story of the Improbable 1982 Alaska State Basketball Championship. It is probably the only book on Palin I will ever possibly read. Another one I grabbed was Lincoln, Inc., [...]
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Sarah Barracuda, Clark Gable, Lincoln & Two Politicos
Posted: May 26, 2012 in Abraham Lincoln, Books, Germany, Pop Culture, United States0
I’ve found a book at the public library, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo, with details of the 1858 campaign in Illinois for the U.S. Senate seat. The race was between Democrat Stephen Douglas and Republican Abraham Lincoln. The duo traveled widely in the state, formally debating eight times mano a mano. The major reasons I [...]
Abraham Lincoln, as a state representative, fled the capitol in Springfield, Illinois, via a window, to avoid an adjournment of the legislature. He was trying to save the State Bank of Illinois and delaying for time. (This was either in 1839 or 1840. There are conflicting dates.) Some, including Think Progess and the AFL-CIO, are equating the story [...]
Ironically, passage of the first fugitive slave law in 1793, coincides with the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The federal law required “all states, including those that forbid slavery, to forcibly return slaves who have escaped from other states to their original owners.” ajh
Today signifies two hundred and two years of Lincoln. In 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, in present-day Larue County. Lincoln grew up among a poor family, spending his formative years in Kentucky and Indiana. He only attended school for one year, but was often encouraged by his stepmother to read. He often borrowed books from [...]
The Hampton Roads Conference, on February 3, 1865, was an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate an end to the American Civil War. (Hampton Roads is the name of the area encompassing the cities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach.) New York Tribune editor and abolitionist Horace Greeley provided the impetus for the conference when he contacted Francis Blair, a Maryland aristocrat and [...]
January 30, 1861
Posted: January 30, 2011 in Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, GOODELL, Illinois, PARKERA writer with The New York Times has a great piece on Abraham Lincoln in Illinois just prior to heading to Washington for his inauguration. My Parker and Goodell relatives were living in the area at the time. I think it’d be hard not to know him. Lincoln was a lawyer and local politician for [...]
Coles County is where some of my mom’s ancestors lived, and where Thomas Lincoln and the family moved in 1831. Thomas and Abraham’s stepmother lived there until their deaths, in 1851 and 1869. Here’s some details. The next year [1831], when his father relocated the family to a new homestead in Coles County, Illinois, 22-year-old Lincoln [...]
Lessons from the Life of Lincoln (& Churchill, Too)
Posted: October 24, 2010 in Abraham Lincoln, Winston ChurchillLessons from the life of Lincoln have turned up on a site in India. A user posted major events in Lincoln’s life and described how he never gave up, which reminds me of Churchill’s advice to some college grads: “Never, never, never give up!” . . . There’s a great story about how he was [...]
Today is Friday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2010. There are 77 days left in the year. On Oct. 15, 1860, 11-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, New York, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard. Two years before, in 1858, the seventh and [...]
