Lincoln's Labels

Lincoln's Labels
Author: James M. Schmidt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:
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Relating a variety of rarely told stories, this overview explores the brand names that supplied food, medicine, clothing, and weapons during the Civil War from the perspective of the producers. From du Pont’s gunpowder and Brooks Brothers’ uniforms to Procter & Gamble’s soap and Borden’s condensed milk, each company and product are investigated in detail. This study also touches upon how combat affected the companies, with each firm telling a tale that mirrors the war itself: family and friendships torn asunder, political intrigue, pitched battles, and paths crossed with the book’s namesake, Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln's Sword

Lincoln's Sword
Author: Douglas L. Wilson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307487539
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Widely considered in his own time as a genial but provincial lightweight who was out of place in the presidency, Abraham Lincoln astonished his allies and confounded his adversaries by producing a series of speeches and public letters so provocative that they helped revolutionize public opinion on such critical issues as civil liberties, the use of black soldiers, and the emancipation of slaves. This is a brilliant and unprecedented examination of how Lincoln used the power of words to not only build his political career but to keep the country united during the Civil War.

Lincoln's Greatcoat

Lincoln's Greatcoat
Author: Reignette G. Chilton
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-04-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476674531
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Brooks Brothers crafted Abraham Lincoln's greatcoat in honor of the president's second inauguration. The coat's wool was "finer than cashmere." Its quilted silk lining bore an embroidered banner that read, "One Country, One Destiny." Lincoln wore the garment when he was assassinated on April 14, 1865. After his death, Mrs. Lincoln gave the greatcoat to a faithful doorkeeper. The coat was returned to Ford's Theatre more than a century after her bequest, but not before it underwent a mysterious journey. This book recounts that journey as a reminder of the 16th president and his call to "bind up wounds" and care for others.

Lincoln's White House Secretary

Lincoln's White House Secretary
Author: Harold Holzer
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2007-05-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809327539
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William Osborn Stoddard, Lincoln’s “third secretary” who worked alongside John G. Nicolay and John Hay in the White House from 1861 to 1865, completed his autobiography in 1907, one of more than one hundred books he wrote. An abridged version was published by his son in 1955 as “Lincoln’s Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard.” In this new, edited version, Lincoln’s White House Secretary: The Adventurous Life of William O. Stoddard, Harold Holzer provides an introduction, afterword, and annotations and includes comments by Stoddard’s granddaughter, Eleanor Stoddard. The elegantly written volume gives readers a window into the politics, life, and culture of the mid-nineteenth century. Stoddard’s bracing writing, eye for detail, and ear for conversation bring a novelistic excitement to a story of childhood observations, young friendships, hardscrabble frontier farming, early hints of the slavery crisis, the workings of the Lincoln administration, and the strange course of war and reunion in the southwest. More than a clerk, Stoddard was an adventurous explorer of American life, a farmer, editor, soldier, and politician. Enhanced by seventeen illustrations, this narrative sympathetically draws the reader into the life and times of Lincoln’s third secretary, adding to our understanding of the events and the larger-than-life figures that shaped history.

Lincoln

Lincoln
Author: Lincoln Area Archives Museum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467132055
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Charles Lincoln Wilson was the founder of Lincoln. His enthusiasm brought the Sacramento Valley Railroad from Folsom as far as the Auburn Ravine. The citizens of Western Placer now had a rail terminal. The new town was given Charles Lincoln Wilson's middle name. After the goldfields played out, copper deposits were discovered. By April 1863, large pieces of copper were being exhibited from the Gardner Claim. There were large copper mines at the J.D. Saunders ranch and at Whiskey Diggins, later Kilaga Springs. In 1874, clay deposits were also found while mining for coal. Charles Gladding, Peter McBean, and George Chambers, all from Chicago, had read about the superior, widespread clay deposits in Lincoln, and they started the California Clay Manufacturing Company in May 1875. The name soon became Gladding, McBean & Company.

Act of Justice

Act of Justice
Author: Burrus Carnahan
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2007-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 081317273X
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In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would “have no lawful right” to interfere with the institution of slavery. Yet less than two years later, he issued a proclamation intended to free all slaves throughout the Confederate states. When critics challenged the constitutional soundness of the act, Lincoln pointed to the international laws and usages of war as the legal basis for his Proclamation, asserting that the Constitution invested the president “with the law of war in time of war.” As the Civil War intensified, the Lincoln administration slowly and reluctantly accorded full belligerent rights to the Confederacy under the law of war. This included designating a prisoner of war status for captives, honoring flags of truce, and negotiating formal agreements for the exchange of prisoners—practices that laid the intellectual foundations for emancipation. Once the United States allowed Confederates all the privileges of belligerents under international law, it followed that they should also suffer the disadvantages, including trial by military courts, seizure of property, and eventually the emancipation of slaves. Even after the Lincoln administration decided to apply the law of war, it was unclear whether state and federal courts would agree. After careful analysis, author Burrus M. Carnahan concludes that if the courts had decided that the proclamation was not justified, the result would have been the personal legal liability of thousands of Union officers to aggrieved slave owners. This argument offers further support to the notion that Lincoln’s delay in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation was an exercise of political prudence, not a personal reluctance to free the slaves. In Act of Justice, Carnahan contends that Lincoln was no reluctant emancipator; he wrote a truly radical document that treated Confederate slaves as an oppressed people rather than merely as enemy property. In this respect, Lincoln’s proclamation anticipated the psychological warfare tactics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Carnahan’s exploration of the president’s war powers illuminates the origins of early debates about war powers and the Constitution and their link to international law.

Abraham Lincoln Stickers

Abraham Lincoln Stickers
Author: A. G. Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 4
Release: 2008-11-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780486467696
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19 full color stickers.

Labeling Lincoln

Labeling Lincoln
Author: Stephenia H. McGee
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-08-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997866001
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"They labeled him tyrant. They labeled him liberator...." No matter what they called him, Lincoln was dead. Now the suspected conspirators are called to trial and Annabelle and Matthew must face accusations amid misrepresented loyalties. Beloved, Cherished, Restored... When Annabelle was unable to stop the nation's first presidential assassination, her fears of failure were only magnified. Imprisoned and berated, Annabelle wants nothing more than to finally return to Rosswood Plantation. But when a surprise visitor comes to call, his clash with Matthew could destroy her hopes for the future. Reconciled, Respected, Redeemed... Forced to choose between his allegiances and the safety of the people he loves, Matthew finds himself swept into the most massive manhunt in history. Booth has disappeared, and everything Matthew holds dear rests on bringing the assassin into custody. He'd promised Annabelle his heart, but the demons haunting the shadows of his mind will no longer be held at bay. In the end, will they discover the power of redemptive love, or will their hearts forever be lost among the casualties of war?Christian Historical Fiction, clean read romance, Civil War era historical novel book, Confederate, Union, Mississippi Plantation, Christian romance, Christian romantic themes, Stephanie McGee, Stephanie Magee, Stephanie H. McGee, Stephanie H. McGee, Stephania, Stephenie, Christian, Christian drama, family drama, Christian love story, mystery, plots, abduction, president, historical inspirational fiction, dramatic historical, God, Holy Spirit, sweet romance, romantic themes, historically accurate, clean read historical, 1800s, 1860s, antebellum, 19th century, history story, southern belle, American civil war, war between the states, must read historical, must read civil war, page turner historical fiction, accurate historical novel, historical themes events, soldier, military, spy, hero, friendship, marriage, religion, military and war, theology, women's fiction, women, Christian living, women's inspirational, grief, loss, depression, love, redemption, saved, God's work, healing, redemption, transformation, Women's personal growth, life application, inspire, spiritual gifts, reading, uplifting fiction, uplifting novel, uplifting stories, uplifting books, popular historical, popular fiction, race relations, social issues, overcoming racism, African American, fighters, small town, Southern, ladies, gentlemen, men, series, charm, manly hero, romantic hero, sweet themes, clean fiction

Angels and Ages

Angels and Ages
Author: Adam Gopnik
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2009-01-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307271218
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In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family men and social climbers, ambitious manipulators and courageous adventurers, grieving parents and brilliant scholars. Above all we see them as thinkers and writers, making and witnessing the great changes in thought that mark truly modern times.

Lincoln at Cooper Union

Lincoln at Cooper Union
Author: Harold Holzer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780743224666
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