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Lincoln Belongs To The Ages

@mg186065 Sources: "Lincoln" by David H. Donald, 1994, page 558. And "A. Lincoln" by Ronald C. White, 2009, page 657.

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Lincoln Belongs To The Ages

Source: Francis B. Carpenter, "Six Months At The White House With Abraham Lincoln", 1866. Carpenter observed and sketched Lincoln & the cabinet in 1864, and produced his painting "First Reading of The Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln" which hangs in the White House. https://t.co/iRHD0m7jQD

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Lincoln Belongs To The Ages

Source: Francis B. Carpenter, "Six Months At The White House With Abraham Lincoln", 1866. Carpenter observed and sketched Lincoln & the cabinet in 1864, and produced his painting "First Reading of The Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln" which hangs in the White House. https://t.co/iRHD0m7jQD

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Lincoln Belongs To The Ages

Lincoln's inauguration trip to Washington in Feb. 1861 is splendidly recounted in "Lincoln On The Verge" by @ted_widmer. One of the very best books I've ever read about Abraham Lincoln. Highly recommended. https://t.co/2K8KOiYyJf

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Lincoln celebrates his nomination for re-election today in 1864 by going to Grover's Theatre to attend a performance of the opera "Fidelio." It happens to be the only opera written by some guy named Ludwig van Beethoven. https://t.co/dNaf1yLxoU

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Lincoln Belongs To The Ages

Source: Russell Duncan, ed., Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992), 90-91.

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Lincoln Belongs To The Ages

Source: Sangamo Journal, May 7, 1846. According to John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, 10 vols. (New York: Century, 1890), Volume 1, page 245.

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Lincoln Belongs To The Ages

That from these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. - Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address. #MemorialDay

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Lincoln Belongs To The Ages

Isabel Wilkerson is the author of the bestselling book, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." It examines how caste systems, even in the U.S., affect our collective daily lives today.

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Lincoln Belongs To The Ages

Sources: Notebook, February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (1868: reprint, Buffalo, NY: Stansil and Lee, 1931), 101.

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