Lincoln University

There are numerous individuals throughout literature that made their imprints stain in history. Although there are little amounts of people that stood up and represented slavery in the United States. Slavery had a huge role in the United States history, getting down in the 1600’s and was abolished in the 1800’s. African-American slaves were maliciously being mistreated and meant nothing, as if they were carcasses, for a hundreds of years. Slaves were not allowed to read or write to keep them…

after Lincoln was assassinated, Congress started the Lincoln Monument Association with the goal of building a memorial. It was not until 1901 that the location of the memorial was selected, and it took another 10 years for funding to build the huge structure. In 1911, Congress approved 2 million dollars to build the memorial. President William Howard authorized the memorial but it took 11 years to complete. The materials to build the monument came from all over the world. The Lincoln…

President Abraham Lincoln was the President during the Civil War (1861-1865). In 1863 President Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the South. Yet the war was still ongoing. In order to enforce this proclamation, Lincoln as commander in chief, sent the United States military in order to give Blacks their freedom. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower…

Killing Lincoln is a vivid retelling of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. They detail the assassination from multiple viewpoints, including that of the president and his assassin. It could serve as a useful tool for scholars because the information is presented in a clear, chronological format, collected from multiple resources, and addresses some of the speculation and conspiracies surrounding this heinous act. It is written by two authors: Bill…

Conspiracy theories concerning the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln have been in existence since almost directly after the death of this great political leader. According to author Daniel Cohen, “there were hints, and sometimes shouts, of a wider and more sinister conspiracy.” In some instance, such suspicions seemed no more than murmurs. There may be a vast number of conspiracy theories but only a relatively small number of them receive scholarly attention, perhaps rightly so. But,…

Pericles was a general at the time and had the one of the biggest roles in the ceremony. Lincoln, on the other hand, was told that his role would be a short one. Despite being the President, his only job was to close the ceremony while the featured speaker, former US Senator Edward Everett, had a speech that averaged around two hours. When comparing…

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th US president, was famous for his role in the emancipation of slaves. Lincoln’s influence was exaggerated, in light of the dominant ideology of white supremacy, particularly in the southern American states. However both during and after his death in 1865 there were conflicting views about his influence on the anti-slavery movement. He played an important part in the steps towards the abolition of slavery, particularly in relation to legislation, but historians have…

In Seth Grahams’ book Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, the author retells the life president Lincoln young and old using his many journals to show including the influence vampires had on Abe and our nation. The story goes as a young 9-year-old Abraham Lincoln has his family taken away one at a time by his father’s association with vampires leading with a curse from vampires. Ending with his beloved mother death Abe makes a vow that” Henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion.…

Cathy Willoughby Stewart Edwards, Ph.D. History 1301 07 November 2017 1362 Varon, Elizabeth R. Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, 258 pp. Appomattox begins with an overview of two opposing military leaders and their inner circle adversaries of the Civil War. A northerner from a small town in Point Pleasantville, Ohio known as Lieutenant General U. S. Grant and General Robert Edwards Lee a southerner born on a plantation…

America in the mid 18th century experienced countless controversy over a variety of political, religious, and moral ideals. The arguments of slavery itself remained a sensitive topic throughout the Jacksonian era and continued to evoke strong emotions of Americans throughout the civil war. Following the Indian Removal Act set in place by Jackson, an idea of conquest swept through the states, this was known as Manifest Destiny. The newly independent Republic of Mexico held that territory, yet…