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Many years ago, during a visit to Washington DC, my wife's cousin pointed out to us a crypt on a hill and mentioned that, in 1862, while Abraham Lincoln was president, his beloved son, Willie, died, and was temporarily interred in that crypt, and that the grief-stricken Lincoln had, according to the newspapers of the day, entered the crypt "on ...
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America is a 2023 nonfiction book by Steve Inskeep, about Abraham Lincoln.. The title of the work originates from the phrase "If for this you and I must differ, differ we must," which Lincoln wrote inside correspondence to Joshua Fry "Josh" Speed, referring to his disagreement with Speed's viewpoints, as Speed's family owned slaves.
The book begins with an introduction where Goodwin explains how she plans to illuminate Lincoln's life: "In my own effort to illuminate the character and career of Abraham Lincoln, I have coupled the account of his life with the stories of the remarkable men who were his rivals for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination—New York senator William H. Seward, Ohio governor Salmon P. Chase ...
In discussion with the strangers he meets there, he discovers that he has been transported back in time to April 14, 1865, the date of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. Corrigan rushes to Ford's Theatre to warn everyone but is arrested for disturbing the peace. Only one officer believes Corrigan, but is overruled by his ...
Amor Towles has transported readers to a hotel in a changing Russia ("A Gentleman in Moscow") and the roads of the U.S. in the 1950's ("The Lincoln Highway," a Read With Jenna pick).For his next ...
The second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, he was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln, an Englishman who migrated from Hingham, Norfolk, to its namesake, Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638. The family through subsequent generations migrated west, passing through New Jersey , Pennsylvania , and Virginia . [ 3 ]
Get ready for all of the NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #124 on Friday, October 13, 2023. Connections game on Friday, October 13, 2023 The New York Times
Author Hugh Eakin, the author of Picasso's War, reveals why he chose to focus the novel on two unexpected characters instead of the artist.