Lincoln, Illinois
Author | : Paul E. Gleason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Lincoln (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9780943963662 |
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Author | : Paul E. Gleason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Lincoln (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9780943963662 |
Author | : Erika Holst |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2018-10-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0809336979 |
Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019 This richly illustrated compendium of twenty-two historic buildings in the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area includes houses, a hotel, and an art center, all of which are open to the public. Each site links today’s visitors with a place Lincoln lived, a home of a Lincoln friend or colleague, or a spot that illuminates Lincoln’s era and legacy in central Illinois. Along with dozens of modern and historical photographs, entries contain explorations of historical connections to Lincoln and detailed information about exceptional features and artifacts. Complete with maps, this showcase of Illinois heritage is a handy guide for day trips, extended tours, or armchair adventures.
Author | : Octavia Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Guy C. Fraker |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2017-11-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0809336170 |
Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2018 For twenty-three years Abraham Lincoln practiced law on the Eighth Judicial Circuit in east central Illinois, and his legal career is explored in Looking for Lincoln in Illinois: A Guide to Lincoln’s Eighth Judicial Circuit. Guy C. Fraker directs readers and travelers through the prairies to the towns Lincoln visited regularly. Twice a year, spring and fall, Lincoln’s work took him on a journey covering more than four hundred miles. As his stature as a lawyer grew, east central Illinois grew in population and influence, and the Circuit provided Lincoln with clients, friends, and associates who became part of the network that ultimately elevated him to the presidency. This guidebook to the Circuit features Illinois courthouses, Looking for Lincoln Wayside Exhibits, and other Lincoln points of interest. Fraker guides travelers down the long stretches of quiet country roads that gave Lincoln time to read and think to the locations where Lincoln’s broad range of cases expanded his sense of the economic and social forces changing America.
Author | : Ron J. Keller |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2019-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809337010 |
In this indispensable account of Abraham Lincoln’s earliest political years, Ron J. Keller reassesses Lincoln’s arguably lackluster legislative record during four terms in the Illinois House of Representatives to reveal how the underpinnings of his temperament, leadership skills, and political acumen were bolstered on the statehouse floor. Due partly to Lincoln’s own reserve and partly to an unimpressive legislative tally, Lincoln’s time in the state legislature has been largely neglected by historians more drawn to other early hallmarks of his life, including his law career, his personal life, and his single term as a U.S. congressman in the 1840s. Of about sixteen hundred bills, resolutions, and petitions passed from 1834 to 1842, Lincoln introduced only about thirty of them. The issue he most ardently championed and shepherded through the legislature—the internal improvements system—left the state in debt for more than a generation. Despite that spotty record, Keller argues, it was during these early years that Lincoln displayed and honed the traits that would allow him to excel in politics and ultimately define his legacy: honesty, equality, empathy, and leadership. Keller reanimates Lincoln’s time in the Illinois legislature to reveal the formation of Lincoln’s strong character and political philosophy in those early years, which allowed him to rise to prominence as the Whig party’s floor leader regardless of setbacks and to build a framework for his future. Lincoln in the Illinois Legislature details Lincoln’s early political platform and the grassroots campaigning that put him in office. Drawing on legislative records, newspaper accounts, speeches, letters, and other sources, Keller describes Lincoln’s positions on key bills, highlights his colleagues’ perceptions of him, and depicts the relationships that grew out of his statehouse interactions. Keller’s research delves into Lincoln’s popularity as a citizen of New Salem, his political alliances and victories, his antislavery stirrings, and his personal joys and struggles as he sharpened his political shrewdness. Keller argues Lincoln’s definitive political philosophies—economic opportunity and the right to rise, democratic equality, and to a lesser extent his hatred of slavery—took root during his legislative tenure in Illinois. Situating Lincoln’s tenure and viewpoints within the context of national trends, Keller demonstrates that understanding Lincoln’s four terms as a state legislator is vital to understanding him as a whole.
Author | : Illinois State Historical Library |
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Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Author | : Lincoln Chamber of Commerce (Lincoln, Ill.) |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 196? |
Genre | : Lincoln (Ill.) |
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Author | : George W. Smith |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0809335522 |
In When Lincoln Came to Egypt, George W. Smith discusses Lincoln's various trips to southern Illinois, focusing mainly on Lincoln's most prominent visit, when he came to debate Stephen A. Douglas in Jonesboro in 1858.
Author | : Illinois. Lincoln Centennial Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Illinois |
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Author | : Frank Cicero Jr. |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0252050347 |
In its early days, Illinois seemed destined to extend the American South. Its population of transplants lived an upland southern culture and in some cases owned slaves. Yet the nineteenth century and three constitutions recast Illinois as a crucible of northern strength and American progress. Frank Cicero Jr. provides an appealing new history of Illinois as expressed by the state's constitutions—and the lively conventions that led to each one. In Creating the Land of Lincoln, Cicero sheds light on the vital debates of delegates who, freed from electoral necessity, revealed the opinions, prejudices, sentiments, and dreams of Illinoisans at critical junctures in state history. Cicero simultaneously analyzes decisions large and small that fostered momentous social and political changes. The addition of northern land in the 1818 constitution, for instance, opened up the state to immigrant populations that reoriented Illinois to the north. Legislative abuses and rancor over free blacks influenced the 1848 document and the subsequent rise of a Republican Party that gave the nation Abraham Lincoln as its president. Cicero concludes with the 1870 constitution, revealing how its dialogues and resolutions set the state on the modern course that still endures today.