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3. Just in the last couple of weeks, a previously unnoticed speech by an African-American attorney in Chicago, delivered on the occasion of Lincoln's 1909 centennial, was discovered. Newspaper clipping, you think? No. A nicely printed pamphlet, tied with a red cord, praising Lincoln as the savior of the Negro and the Nation. There is evidence that several of these were printed and sold. Who has them all? What does it add to the changing view of Lincoln by African-Americans?
4. Lincoln's legal career in Illinois has been fully documented after 20 years of courthouse searching. Turns out he handled three times the number of cases that had previously been thought. A four-volume greatest hits will go on sale in March; the whole caboodle will be published online eventually. So now we can examine such questions as: how common was divorce on the prairie frontier? How many people cheated when selling a horse? How influential was Lincoln's courtroom legacy in shaping the laws governing railroads—the biggest industry of the 19th century?
5. New photos. About one a month lately. Some of them can be dismissed in a wink; others are a closer call. But apparently a lot of people are spending a lot of time going to a lot of garage sales in search of you know who. A previously unknown one—Lincoln, seated, his image manipulated by a newspaper owner in 1858 to promote his own paper—came to light in 2006.
And, of course, there are more books on the way. There are now upward of 15,000 books about Lincoln, more than about any other person except Jesus (though there are more about Lincoln than about God, reckons Baker). In our lifetime Lincoln has supplanted Washington as the most revered president. Might this change in the future?
For those who want to dig deeper still, the first full list of What Lincoln Read was published last year. Or what Lincoln might have read, I should say; this highly labor-intensive project by a literature and local history professor gives a grade to the likelihood of Lincoln having consumed each title. So pick up a good book about Lincoln. Or one he read. Learn more about what to hope for from the next president by reading about this one. And get ready for a really big birthday celebration next year—whenever and wherever the party may be.
James Cornelius is curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Ill.
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Posted By: The_epoch_point @ 05/20/2008 10:34:48 PM
Comment: It's about time everyone takes another look at Abraham Lincoln and all the other anti-communists like Ronald Reagan and Joseph R. McCarthy. After all it was a Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald and a communist Sirhan Sirhan who knocked off the Kennedy Brothers. Now check out this awesome book I just read at Amazon.com!
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Posted By: 313girl @ 05/18/2008 8:56:09 PM
Comment: Sounds like the Bush Administration post 9/11.
Gentlemen, I have enjoyed your discourse immensey. Each has presented, for the most part, reasonable arguement and fact. Thank you.
Posted By: jdoll123 @ 02/18/2008 10:46:37 PM
Comment: You cite a host of inaccurate statements here and this is not unfortunately a forum to address them all; suffice it to say that many of them are at best exaggerated or lacking in context, For example, Vallandigham was not deported for opposing Lincoln's income tax proposal.
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