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What would the 16th president think of Trump’s immigration woes?
It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...
President Donald Trump should follow Abraham Lincoln in responding to judicial overreach, former appeals court clerk Josh Hammer says.
Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...
The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from ...
The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating ... "That was destiny,” said Guy Fraker, a Bloomington, Illinois, lawyer and Lincoln biographer, “because if he hadn’t, I ...
Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham ... Illinois, lawyer and Lincoln biographer, “because ...
This film narrates the life of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, from his humble beginnings in a poor Pioneer family in Kentucky to his rise as a prominent lawyer and ...
Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham ... Illinois, lawyer and Lincoln biographer, "because ...
An “ill-omen” of that danger, Lincoln says, is “the increasing disregard for law.” To “deny” that ... Washington stuns us. Was Honest Abe clairvoyant? Sure, he was using the word ...
After Years of Neglect, an Illinois Village With Ties to Abraham Lincoln Is Getting ... a Bloomington, Illinois, lawyer and Lincoln biographer, “because if he hadn’t, I really firmly believe ...