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THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES, PART II. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3690 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Reviewing biography.(Critical Essay)(Column)
Author: Betty Carter
Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: 79Issue: 2Page: 165(10)

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This digital document is an article from Child Life, published by Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc. on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1628 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lonesome Abe. (story about the childhood of Pres Abraham Lincoln)
Author: Mabel S. Merrill
Publication: Child Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc.
Volume: v76Issue: n1Page: p4(3)

Article Type: Biography

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Respected historian Milton Meltzer has compiled a moving collection of our sixteenth president's speeches, letters, and writings. Dramatically illustrated with Stephen Alcorn's powerful and expressive linocuts depicting Lincoln, his times, and his contemporaries, Lincoln: In His Own Words reveals the man behind the words and his unfailing dedication to the ideals upon which America was founded. ... Read more

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Lincoln's thoughts and beliefs
This is a book I first saw at our public library and liked it so much I decided I had to have my own copy. It gives the essence of Lincoln in a chronological and very readable form, with enough background information to let one know the reasons for giving the speech or writing the letter. This is a great book for junior high or high school students although written for adults. The woodcut illustrations are tremendous and add a great deal to the feeling of the book ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Biography, published by University of Hawaii Press on September 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1364 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory. (Reviews).
Author: Howard Jones
Publication: Biography (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2001
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Volume: 24Issue: 4Page: 970(5)

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"Bradley Hoch . . . follows in Lincoln’s footsteps, travels to every nook and cranny of Pennsylvania, to places famous and places barely known, discovers much new interesting information, and takes the delighted reader along with him. What a ride for the Lincoln buff—and also for the serious student of history. Experts always have carried a sense of the significance of Pennsylvania’s Lincoln connections, but all will be surprised by the breadth of the terrain Hoch visits. We travel along, sometimes amused, sometimes bemused, happy, sad, questioning, enlightened, and at the end of the road we are better people." —from the Foreword by Gabor S. Boritt

What is the Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania? It is the story of Abraham Lincoln in the Keystone State—the chronicle of where he went, what he did, and what he said in the state. The trail begins with Lincoln’s Pennsylvania ancestors, moves on to his travels, public appearances, and speeches, and concludes with his funeral train in 1865. The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania tells a story for the reader, but it is also a guide for those who would travel the state figuratively or literally, to recover the memory of America’s sixteenth president.

The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania transports the reader back in time to key moments in Lincoln’s public life. In 1846, at the age of thirty-seven, Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Using mileage that Lincoln claimed for his trip, available routes, duration of the journey, and average speeds, Bradley Hoch is the first to establish the probable route Lincoln followed on his way from Illinois to Washington, D.C. Hoch concludes that he traveled by steamboat along the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers and by stagecoach on the National Road into Maryland.

After Lincoln was elected president in November 1860, he transformed his inaugural journey from Springfield to Washington into a grand railroad tour of northern cities, hoping to cement the people’s loyalty to the Union and to himself. His inaugural train, the first of its kind, made several stops in Pennsylvania. Hoch follows Lincoln throughout his journey, including the dramatic last leg—the "secret night train"—when Allan Pinkerton and his agents, determined to protect Lincoln from would-be assassins, cut telegraph lines and sidetracked trains in order to spirit him safely from Harrisburg to Washington.

Hoch recovers symbolic moments, none more moving than Lincoln’s funeral train as it stopped in several Pennsylvania cities, including York, Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Erie. In Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell was placed at the head of Lincoln’s coffin when it lay in Independence Hall. As more than one hundred thousand mourners passed by, the bell’s inscription memorialized his life, "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land, unto all inhabitants thereof."

Rarely seen photographs, engravings, and maps enrich this illuminating volume. In the final chapter, Hoch offers a guide of sites to visit in present-day Pennsylvania, making The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania a welcome book for a wide range of readers interested in American history. ... Read more

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Fascinating, highly detailed, great pictures!
A thoughtfully detailed and entertaining narrative with lots of captivating photos of the key people and places of Lincoln's visits to the Commonwealth. I also liked the appendix which provided guidance on how to follow and experience the Lincoln Trail. I'm not a Lincoln expert, so the accounts of his experiences here were new to me and fascinating to read... but that also means my rating is just a reflection of how much I liked this book, not a comparison to other books about Mr. Lincoln. It is unquestionably well-written. ... Read more

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Great
Well I needed to read this book for a history book report.The book was interesting but also boring for a 14 year old to read.All of the political stuff but it was still a great book about Lincoln.I learned alot about him and and how much he must have been stressing while he wasPresident.If you like to read then u might as well read this book. ... Read more

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1929. Contents: Lincoln's place in history; presidential office; education of a future president; frontier youth encounters slavery; Lincoln's first taste of politics and war; Lincoln becomes a lawmaker; definite position on the slave question; emancipation projects, Lincoln's plan; crisis in national banking; boisterous Harrison campaign; Tyler, a president without a party; Clay loses his third campaign; war with Mexico, the Oregon crisis; Lincoln, the Congressman; Washington in Polk's time; Lincoln a leader in the politics of 1848; Lincoln returns to private life; birth of the Republican party; presidential election of 1856; Lincoln and Douglas, a supreme debate; how the two Illinois rivals stood; Douglas wins a costly victory; Buchanan surveys the world at large; John Brown attempts emancipation; Congress meets in bitter dissension; Lincoln addresses the East. Profusely illustrated with contemporary cartoons, portraits and scenes. ... Read more

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First published in 1959 to mark the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Louis A. Warren's classic study of Lincoln's formative years in Indiana tracks his growth from awkward boy to serious young man poised on the brink of a brilliant career. Here are fascinating glimpses of Lincoln's family life, the people he knew, the places he visited, his physical development, and the tragedies he suffered. Perhaps most revealing is Warren's treatmnet of Lincoln's education, both in the schools he briefly attended and in the books he read, and the influence of Thomas Lincoln in forming the character of his son. ... Read more