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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.

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

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

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

Lincoln Belongs To The Ages

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

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.

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.

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.

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.