I want to highlight an interesting letter that James Buchanan wrote about a week after President Abraham Lincoln’s Inauguration on March 4, 1861. Despite four “stormy and turbulent” years in the White House, Buchanan told New York Herald editor James Bennett that ultimately “[his] administration [had] been eminently successful in its foreign & domestic policy.” […]
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"Eminently successful in its foreign & domestic policy”
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The Economist on President Lincoln
Posted by sailerd Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Historic Periodicals“THE success of the Republican candidate for the Presidency in the United States will prove one of the greatest events of modern times” – Economist, November 24, 1860. This editorial, along with two others from 1865, were just posted in the From the archive section of the Economist’s website. This British newspaper considered the Republican […]
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Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Congratulates Obama
Posted by Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Recent NewsToday the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area printed an article in the Morris Daily Herald located in Illinois congratulating President-elect Barack Obama. Within the article they metion how Obama’s victory helps to keep the legacy of Lincoln alive. “Yet, the arrival, to this place, at this time in our nation’s history, gives us hope that […]
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Like we are doing today, 150 years ago Americans across the country were analyzing the fallout of the most recent elections. The 1858 midterm elections were of considerable importance for the Civil War Era, and the results of the election made great strides to divide the nation politically. As this New York Times article from […]
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In a thought-provoking column today in the New York Times, headlined “Finishing Our Work,” Tom Friedman argues that the Obama victory represents a final act of closure for the American Civil War. And he finds it particularly fitting that it was Virginia in many ways that provided the key to Obama’s electoral triumph. Friedman writes: […]
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I want to point out an article that the Chicago Press & Tribune published on July 1, 1858. Almost two months before the first 1858 debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, the Tribune provided an account of the exchange between those two Illinois politicians in October 1854. Even though the Tribune described the event […]
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“But will the election of Mr. Lincoln endanger the Union?”
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic PeriodicalsThe Atlantic’s archive also has selected full text articles published between 1857 and November 1995. While a number of interesting articles are available, I wanted to point out one from the October 1860 issue. A month before the November 1860 election, James Russell Lowell discussed the four candidates and potential outcomes. Lowell realized that “this […]
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08
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates is a topic often written about and discussed, certainly in this blog, and certainly among teachers, historians, and political scientists. The Debates are always relevant in telling the story of the nation, especially of those steps into civil war. This year in particular, much has been said about the Debates, whether by […]
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08
Galesburg, Illinois has decided to declare this the “Year of Lincoln” in recognition of both the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. An article was released today from Knox College in Galesburg, home of the 5th Lincoln-Douglas debate. The article discusses and describes many of […]
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I found a lesson plan to go with the interactive map of the Lincoln Douglas Debates interactive map I found yesterday! Find more lesson plans at the House Divided’s Underground Railroad Digital Classroom.
