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Tag Archives: Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln’s Secret Spy: A Book Review
Authors Jane Singer and John Stewart are very quirky writers. Not a bad thing by the way. Quirk works. And they chose a very quirky subject for their anti-hero look at “the great con” of the Civil War. Had Lincoln … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Author Jane Singer, Author John Stewart, Civil War books, Civil War espionage, Civil War history, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, Lincoln's Secret Spy, President Lincoln, Secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton, US history, William Alvin Lloyd
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Emilie Todd: Mary Lincoln’s Little Sister
Mary Todd Lincoln came from a huge family. There were fourteen children. Children and Steps: Mary Todd was the fourth of six children born to Robert Smith Todd and his first wife, Elizabeth Parker. She died when Mary was only … Continue reading
Posted in American Civil War, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Benjamin Hardin Helm, Confederate General Ben Helm, Elizabeth Parker, Emilie Todd, Emilie Todd Helm, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Mary Lincoln, history, Katherine Helm, Lincoln's brother-in-law Ben Helm, Mary Lincoln, Mary Lincoln's sister Emilie Todd, Mary Lincoln's sisters, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln's parents, President Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln, Presidential history, Robert Smith Todd, The Lincoln's "Little sister", US history, White House history
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Lincoln and the Jews: A Book Review
The Book. Lincoln and the Jews, by Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell, is an important book on many levels. First, it is a beautiful book, and very very classy. The illustrations, while not rivaling Michelangelo, are copies of historical … Continue reading
Mary Lincoln’s Rivals
Thirty year old Harriet Lane enjoyed a hugely popular tenure as de facto First Lady in the late 1850s. Her social leadership was as successful as her Uncle James Buchanan’s political administration was a flop. When First Lady-to-be Mary Lincoln … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Buchanan's niece Harriet Lane, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Julia Grant, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, General Grant, Harriet Lane, history, James Buchanan's niece, Julia Grant, Kate Chase, Kate Chase Sprague, Lincoln's Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, Mary Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. General Grant, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Ulysses S Grant, President Abraham Lincoln, Presidential history, Presidential hostess Harriet Lane, Salmon P. Chase, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, White House history
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Washington and Lincoln: The Weems Connection
George Washington died in 1799, ten years before Abraham Lincoln was born. GW: A Symbol for his Age When George Washington died a few weeks before his sixty-eighth birthday, he was a towering figure, arguably the most important and respected … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Nifty History People
Tagged "The Life of George Washington", Abraham Lincoln, American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, General George Washington, George Washington, history, itinerant preachers, Lincoln's damaged book story, Mason Weem, Parson Weems, Presidential history, US history, washington's cherry tree story, young Abraham Lincoln, Young George Washington
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VP Hannibal Hamlin, Coast Guard Private
Hannibal Hamlin was Vice President during Abraham Lincoln’s first term. He was a decent man, lost to history. Vice President Hamlin, The Background Hannibal Hamlin, from Maine, was a likeable and respected attorney, a pleasant but far from stellar United … Continue reading
Posted in American Civil War, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Harrison during Divil War, Feather Schwartz Foster, Hannibal Hamlin, history, James Garfield during Civil War, Lincoln's Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, Maine Coast Guard during the Civil War, President Benjamin Harrison, President James A. Garfield, President Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford Hayes during Civil War, The Republican Convention of 1860, US history, Vice President Andrew Johnson, Vice President Hamlin, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, Vice Presidential history, VP Hannibal Hamlin
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Robert T. Lincoln: Witness to Assassinations
When Robert Lincoln was nearly sixty, he vowed never again to meet a President of the United States. He was a prominent man with an iconic name. Meeting and greeting Presidents was a given. But he let it be known … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, Nifty History People, William McKinley
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Charles Julius Guiteau, Chief Justics William Howard Taft, Feather Schwartz Foster, Ford's Theater, Garfield's assassin Guiteau, history, James Garfield, John Wilkes Booth, Leon Czolgosz, Mary Lincoln, McKinley's assassin Czolgosz, President James Garfield, President Warren Harding, President William McKinley, Robert Lincoln, Robert T. Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, Secrfetary of War Robert T. Lincoln, the assassination of Garfield, The assassination of Lincoln, the assassination of McKinley, the assassination of William McKinley, The Lincoln Memorial, the Peterson House, US history, Warren Harding, William McKinley
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The Presidential Stepping Stone
More than half our Presidents have been lawyers, at least by discipline. Whether they liked it or not, and even whether they actively “practiced law” is something else. POTUSes Reading Law In the “olden days,” one did not need a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Andrew Jackson, Calvin Coolidge, Feather Schwartz Foster, Franklin Roosevelt, George Wythe, history, James Garfield, James Monroe, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, President Harding, Presidential history, Presidential lawyers, Presidents who were lawyers, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. history, Warren Harding, White House history, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
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Abraham Lincoln, Father Abraham
There is no question that Abraham Lincoln loved his wife and children dearly, but was he a “family man” by nature? Lincoln: The Family Child Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was born to a hard-working, but essentially poor family. By his own … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Eddie Lincoln, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, history, Lincoln's early romance with Mary Owens, Lincoln's father Thomas Lincoln, Lincoln's stepmother, Mary Owens, Mary Todd Lincoln, President Abraham Lincon, President Lincoln, Presidential history, Robert Lincoln, Sarah Bush Johnston, Sarah Bush Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, US history, White House history, Willie Lincoln
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Mary Lincoln’s Tablecloth: A Metaphor
In an apt metaphor, Mary brought the tablecloth and the good dishes to the Lincoln table. Mary Lincoln is unquestionably a divisive figure. She was divisive in her own time, and nearly two centuries later, remains so. People either … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Elizabeth Todd Edwards, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady History, history, IL, Mary Lincoln, Mary Lincoln's education, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Todd's family, Presidential history, Presidential wives, the Lincoln house in Springfield, Todd objections to the Lincoln marriage, US history, White House history
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