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A blog about random things, all related to Abraham Lincoln. Includes recent news, a media watch for TV shows and magazine articles, and general thoughts about Lincoln's character and political life.
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Check This Out!
Mary Todd Lincoln biographical sketch is now online.
See the tour of the Lincoln Museum, which shut its doors in June 2008.
Tad Lincoln was named Thomas Lincoln when he was born, but Lincoln soon gave him his famous nickname--described in podcast episode 3.
The Abraham Lincoln statue by Pietro Mezzara, described in podcast episode 2, was the first Lincoln statue erected in the United States.
Lincoln explains the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
The Lincoln Lore title index is now complete, from issue 1 published in 1929, to the current issue.
Read the complete book online: How We Elected Lincoln, the 1916 book by Lincoln elector (involved in both 1860 and 1864 elections) Abram J. Dittenhoefer.
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces
of destruction to the Government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it.
- Speech at New Haven, CT, March 6, 1860
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