Why We Love LincolnThis story, brought to us by the remarkable reporter and writer James Creelman, is a more personal and straightforward portrayal of the most popular U.S. President. The account is told in an easy manner that provides many perspectives into Lincoln's ethos and character, making the story of Lincoln accessible to readers. |
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... United States. In spite of an educated, well-to-do American ancestry of pure English Quaker stockāone was a member of the Boston Tea Party; another was a revolutionary minuteman, served in the Continental Congress and was Attorney ...
... United States. In spite of an educated, well-to-do American ancestry of pure English Quaker stockāone was a member of the Boston Tea Party; another was a revolutionary minuteman, served in the Continental Congress and was Attorney ...
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... United States, and praying for the victory that came at Gettysburg. All that year the sensitive boy grieved for the mother who had gone out of his life; but in time his father went back to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where he married the ...
... United States, and praying for the victory that came at Gettysburg. All that year the sensitive boy grieved for the mother who had gone out of his life; but in time his father went back to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where he married the ...
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... United States . He became the best speller and penman in his neighborhood . Yet there was a vein of waggery in him which occasionally found a vent in such written verse as this : Abraham Lincoln , His hand and pen , He will be good ...
... United States . He became the best speller and penman in his neighborhood . Yet there was a vein of waggery in him which occasionally found a vent in such written verse as this : Abraham Lincoln , His hand and pen , He will be good ...
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... United States and the Ordinance of 1787, and he bound them on his heart like a seal and wore them till the hour of his cruel death. As time went on Lincoln developed into a popular story-teller and oracle at Jones' grocery store in the ...
... United States and the Ordinance of 1787, and he bound them on his heart like a seal and wore them till the hour of his cruel death. As time went on Lincoln developed into a popular story-teller and oracle at Jones' grocery store in the ...
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