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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Abraham Lincoln"”.
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Continuing the Debate: Abraham Lincoln and Equality
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Abraham Lincoln and Progressive Reform, 1890-1920
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993.
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Every Spot a Grave: The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln
… in 2004 propelled him onto the national stage. Abraham Lincoln not only understood the power of words, but he knew how to use them to his advantage. Words were the secret to his success; indeed, they continue to serve his legacy well. While scholarly studies of Lincoln's rhetoric have steadily …
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: Abraham Lincoln as an Adult Learner
… This study examines the lived experience of Abraham Lincoln in the context of his adult learning motivation, forming a qualitative narrative around his adult educational experiences. It was hypothesized that Abraham Lincoln benefited from learning experiences with high levels of both …
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Biographies about Abraham Lincoln for children (1865-1969): Portrayals of his parents
Publications related to Abraham Lincoln have been abundant, and such writings have been analyzed in numerous historiographical essays. One area of Lincoln literature that has received little attention from scholars, however, is that portion intended for children. Yet these writings must be …
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Abraham Lincoln : His leadership qualities and their relevance to today's business leadership
… war which killed more than 600.000 soldiers Abraham Lincoln emerged as a statesman who preserved the Union and abolished slavery. Lincoln's journey from a country lawyer in Illinois to the greatest U.S. presidents has been well documented. However, there is not a lot of literature around his …
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A Comparative Study of the Uses of Humor in Selected Political Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Adlai E. Stevenson Ii
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Civil society and civil discourse: Eloquence and hope in the communications of presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Barack Obama
… not reality, of unity. The American presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Barack Obama each combined elements of taste, common sense, sympathy, propriety—and hope to posit an epideictic ideal: eloquent expressions meant to bring a diverse citizenry an ideal, if not reality, …
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California Opinion on Lincoln to 1864
… the more colossal stands out the figure of Abraham Lincoln.” In recent years this recognition in retrospect has been supplemented in periodical literature by anecdotes from Lincolniana. His self-education, his simplicity of manner, his sense of humor, his statesmanship are being revealed …
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Whitman And The Elegy: Mythologizing Lincoln And The Poetic Reconstruction Of Mourning
<p>In Walt Whitman's mind, Abraham Lincoln represented the very essence of America and, because of this, Lincoln and his assassination were the ideal subject through which Whitman could explore the art of mourning on both individual and collective scales. The regimented order of lament, adoration, …
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Lincoln: Reformer or Revolutionary? An Analysis of Lincoln's Legacy as Compared to the Political Ideals of the Amerian Revolution
… legacies departed from American traditions, Abraham Lincoln coveted the political ideals espoused by the Founding Fathers. As president, Lincoln inherited the unprecedented challenges that resulted from decades of politicians tabling the insoluble problem of slavery. He operated within the …
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The Lincoln tradition in American poetry
… Dolly Madison, Barbara Frietchie, U. S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt are familiar to all of us because of the countless stories we have read and heard about them. Some of these tales have been in prose and some in poetry.|Of all the persons mentioned here is none who has been …
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In the Lord's Army: The United States Christian Commission in the Civil War
… of the Commission's activities, as did President Abraham Lincoln. While the Commission had its detractors, the majority of those who came into contact with the organization appreciated its labors.
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Rockbridge County unionism and the secession crisis
… because they recognized both the threat Abraham Lincoln posed to their liberty and the possible ramifications of isolating their state from the rest of the slave states.
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Intelligence versus impulse: William H Seward and the threat of war with France over Mexico, 1861--1867
… such as when he suggested to President Abraham Lincoln in April 1861 that foreign wars might be an antidote to national dissolution. It does assert, however, that in matters broadly related to foreign affairs during the administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, Seward had a …
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A Vast and Varied Opposition: The Shifting War Democrat - Peace Democrat Continuum in Civil War Pennsylvania
… effort aided the Republican administration of Abraham Lincoln, to the Peace Democrats, whose obstructionist principles aimed to derail the North's commitment to win the war. This work argues that different segments of the Democratic continuum controlled state politics at different times …
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Hidden History: The role of Great Britain in the American Civil War As told by cultural artifacts
… the United States? Why is there a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the city of Manchester? How does a monument dedicated to the martyrs at the Lune Street Riots on Preston, Lancashire relate to the Civil War? Why does a sea shanty about one of the arguably most famous and successful ships in the …
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Propaganda Use by the Union and Confederacy in Great Britain during the American Civil War, 1861-1862
… Proclamation. From the moment President Abraham Lincoln announced in September 1862 that he would emancipate slaves in the rebelling states, the nature of the American Civil War as viewed by the British changed. It could no longer be viewed simply as a war for southern independence, for …
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Markaðsáætlun fyrir Hópferðamiðstöðina Trex
… hér á landi. Haft hefur verið eftir Abraham Lincoln forseta Bandaríkjanna að besta leiðin til að spá fyrir um framtíðina er að skapa hana sjálfur. Að skapa tækifæri framtíðar er verkefnið sem er framundan hjá fyrirtækinu þannig að það sitji ekki eftir á stækkandi markaði. Markmið …
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Judgment on the sword : the US Supreme Court's jurisprudence on presidential war powers.
… heavily in the thought of Joseph Story and Abraham Lincoln, which recognizes that there are broad presidential war powers granted by the Constitution that depend upon circumstances for their application and that because these powers come from the Constitution, they are subject to its limits, …
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