Contributing Editors for this page include Jim Coe Ranking #37 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “How in God’s name do you let such paragraphs into the Tribune, as the enclosed cut from that paper…
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Letter to Charles Ray (June 27, 1858)
Tagged with: Anger, Antebellum, Letter, Management style, Needs Close Reading, Newspapers, Partisanship, Private, Recent Discoveries
Posted in The Railsplitter
Posted in The Railsplitter
Letter to Lorenzo Thomas (November 7, 1861)
Ranking #58 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “First. We need all the educated military talent we can get.” On This Date HD Daily Report, November 7, 1861 The Lincoln Log, November 7, 1861 Custom…
Tagged with: Letter, Management style, Military Affairs, Needs Close Reading, Private, Recent Discoveries, Wartime
Posted in Father Abraham
Posted in Father Abraham
Letter to Andrew McCormick (January 1, 1841)
Ranking #77 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “For Heaven’s sake, for your friends sake, for the sake of the recollection of all the hard battles we have heretofore fought shoulder, to shoulder, do not…
Tagged with: Anger, Antebellum, Friendship, Letter, Needs Close Reading, Newspapers, Partisanship, Private, Recent Discoveries
Posted in The Railsplitter
Posted in The Railsplitter
Letter to Jesse Norton (February 16, 1855)
Ranking #95 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I have now been beaten one day over a week; and I am very happy to find myself quite convalescent.” On This Date HD Daily Report, February…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Election of 1854, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Letter, Needs Close Reading, Partisanship, Private, Recent Discoveries
Posted in The Railsplitter
Posted in The Railsplitter
Letter to Alexander McClure (August 30, 1860)
Ranking #97 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “When you say you are organizing every election district, do you mean to include the idea that you are ‘canvassing’ – ‘counting noses?’” On This Date HD…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Election of 1860, Letter, Management style, Needs Close Reading, Private, Recent Discoveries, Younger Readers
Posted in The Railsplitter
Posted in The Railsplitter
Letter to Thomas Corwin (October 9, 1859)
Contributing Editors for this page include Jim Coe Ranking #108 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript We must have though a man who recognizes the slavery issue as being the living issue of the…
Tagged with: Anger, Antebellum, Letter, Needs Close Reading, Partisanship, Private, Recent Discoveries
Posted in The Railsplitter
Posted in The Railsplitter
Speech at River and Harbor Convention (July 6, 1847)
Ranking #135 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I had supposed that it was not proper for me, residing in Illinois, to occupy the time of the Convention in making a speech. I will, however,…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Founders, Needs Close Reading, Partisanship, Pragmatism, Public, Recent Discoveries, Speech
Posted in The Railsplitter
Posted in The Railsplitter
Letter to Richard Oglesby (September 8, 1854)
Contributing Editors for this page include Chris Jaax Ranking #137 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man, to an intemperate one; still I do not…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Election of 1854, Letter, Partisanship, Private, Recent Discoveries, Temperance
Posted in Honest Abe
Posted in Honest Abe
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