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Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 months ago.
While such documents by themselves do not necessarily lead us to re-evaluate everything we know about Lincoln's service in the Black Hawk War, they are nonetheless significant. At the very least, remind us that Lincoln's wartime service was important to ...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 5 months ago.
While President Obama certainly has his critics and I don't doubt that their criticism stings, especially when it seems as if it is leveled unfairly, he is not in Lincoln's league when it comes to being maligned. No president was attacked in the popular ...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 11 months ago.
The New York Times ran a very good piece today by Adam Goodheart on slavery in the nation’s capitol. Among other things, Goodheart tells readers about a curious auction that took place on the day of Lincoln’s first inauguration. Human be...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 11 months ago.
Many thanks to the students and teachers at Iles Elementary school in Springfield, Illinois, where I spoke about the Fugitive Slave Act this afternoon. What a nice group of students!
Posted by Lincoln Studies 1 year ago.
Several big things are on the horizon over the next few weeks. I wanted to pass along this speaking engagement: On November 8th, I will be speaking at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska. The title of my talk is “Christianizing Lincoln: ...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 1 year ago.
Two LincolnStudies.com contributors will be published in upcoming editions of The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association.
Readers of LincolnStudies.com are familiar with Lewis Gannett. Back in April 2008, he contributed an insightful article on the ...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 1 year ago.
Books about Abraham Lincoln have traditionally sold well. In recent times, a number of television shows, movies, and books about vampires have popped up. Perhaps it was inevitable.  Best-selling author Seth Grahame-Smith’s new book, Abraham ...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 1 year ago.
It was the best-selling novel of the 19th Century. Published in 1852, more than 300,000 copies of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin were sold in the United States. As the decade progressed and tension over slaver...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 1 year ago.
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
I’m am so happy to pass along this announcement to you!Â
John Y. Simon Day and Ulysses S. Grant Lecture
Saturday, October 10, 2009, 10 am
at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis, MO
Featured speakers include:
Dr. John F. Marszal...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
40th Annual Independence Day Program July 4 at Kaskaskia Bell
KASKASKIA ISLAND, IL – For the 40th time Americans will ring in the Fourth of July this year, with a programmed celebration to mark another type of ringing in a 306-year-old Illinois communit...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
The war might have ended in 1865, but the battle over Civil War memory remains especially fierce. A number of news stories have recently appeared on my radar:
 Groups at the University of Alabama disagree over “Old South” celebration  What ...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
Legal History of the Civil War Era
~From the Mexican War to Jim Crow~
A Series of Books Published by Southern Illinois University Press
Edited by Christian G. Samito
Abraham Lincoln identified a “new birth of freedom” during the Civil War era,...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
My speaking schedule has picked up and I thought I might pass along a couple of upcoming dates to you.Â
Tomorrow evening, March 21, 2009, I will be the keynote speaker at the Jackson County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner. The event will be held at the G...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
I received a number of emails from readers over the weekend regarding the History Channel’s recent special, “Stealing Lincoln’s Body.” Indeed, there was a plot to steal Lincoln’s body in 1876. Though I was able to forge...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
Bloomberg.com has uploaded a series of intriguing Lincoln-related podcats. I listened to several of them and was impressed; the guests were first-rate, while the conversations were wide-ranging.  Â
I might also add that these podcasts are quite ha...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
This is one of the most remarkable stories I have come across in quite some time.  I definitely learned something new this morning.Â
The Hamilton Journal-News in Hamilton, Ohio is reporting that Abraham Lincoln’s fingerprint has been found!Â
L...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
We do strange things to the past. Consider what happens to our former presidents.  We carved four of their portraits onto the side of a mountain in 1927. Though we seem to have given up such gigantic tributes, today we reduce many of them to mereÂ...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
The OUP Blog from the folks at Oxford University Press has been busy lately. The Bicentennial appears to have inspired a number of Lincoln-related posts.  I look forward to pointing out a few of them to you.Â
The first blogpost of note was written ...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 years ago.
I spent the last several days talking at great length about the Lincoln legacy. Over the last 144 years, politicians and political parties, as well as special interest groups and advertising agencies, have used Lincoln for their own benefit. However,...
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