Marj hogarth biography of abraham lincoln
January 23 through June 7, 2015
This exhibition focuses on Abraham Lincoln’s mastery of language and how his words changed the course of history. Today, nearly 150 years after the end of the Civil War, he remains an exemplar of exalted leadership in a time of great crisis, and people the world over continue to look to him as a standard-bearer for principled governance. The exhibition explores Lincoln as a writer and public speaker whose eloquence shaped the nation and the world in his own time and still reverberates in ours.
Lincoln Speaks is presented thematically and chronologically. It was organized in conjunction with scholars at the Gilder Lehrman Institute and draws heavily on its renowned collection of American historical documents. With additional contributions from the Shapell Foundation, Harvard College Library, the Library of Congress, and the Morgan’s collection of Lincoln manuscripts and letters, the exhibition includes photographic portraits and books owned and used by Lincoln. It highlights the range of his rhetorical powers from the elevated style of his proclamations and great speeches to the forceful, incisive language of his military memos and the intimate prose of personal letters to family and friends. Lincoln drew upon his powers as a writer and orator to sustain the country during its greatest crisis and to inspire Americans to embrace the end of slavery. The show coincides with the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination and assesses the scale of Lincoln’s achievement as well as his national and global legacy through an examination of of his powerful words.
A complete online version of the exhibition, along with supplemental materials, is available at The Lincoln Institute.
Lead funding for this exhibition is provided by Karen H. Bechtel and the Gilder Foundation, with additional generous support from Richard and Ronay Menschel.
President Lincoln by Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C., N ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES. “Honest Old Abe,” as the Americans call Lincoln, was originally a farm-labourer in Illinois. Frederick Douglas, “the little giant,” his defeated antagonist, was a cabinet-maker. We can in our own country, I know, point to instances of great judges, who have swept out offices; great generals, who have risen (socially) from the ranks; great poets, who have been ploughmen, or the sons of simple yeomen; and great college professors, who have been the sons of carpenters; but in America the instances are so frequent, that they scarcely attract attention. Up and down, men toss in that feverish seething sea of Transatlantic life, so that no one stares to hear that the new inhabitant of the White House on the banks of the Potomac was once a wood-cutter, any more than he would to see the wealthy merchant, with whom he dined last year in his splendid palace in the Fifth Avenue, stirring round oyster soup or “clam chowder” in a gilded refreshment cellar in the Broadway. Rising and falling are both very easy in America. In one of his “stump speeches,” when lately itinerating the north-west provinces, Frederick Douglas, after informing the crowd that he had first been a school teacher, and then a cabinet-maker, peculiarly skilful in the construction of bureaus and secretaries, and nearly as good at bedsteads and tables, went on to describe how, like Lincoln, he afterwards turned advocate, got into the Legislature, and eventually attained notoriety by his speeches on “squatter sovereignty,” and the Kansas and Nebraska Bill. Having thus sketched himself as a self-made man, “the little giant” went on to praise “Old Abe” as one of those peculiar men who seemed to succeed with admirable skill in all that he undertook. He was the best teller of a story he (Douglas) knew. When he was younger he could throw any of PresidentAbraham"Honest Abe"Lincoln Son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln Brother of Sarah (Lincoln) Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln Jr Father of Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln and Thomas Lincoln Profile last modified | Created 22 Dec 2010 This page has been accessed 136,281 times. Abraham Lincoln is Notable. Abraham Lincoln has English ancestors. Abraham is a Friend (Quaker) descendant Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and one of the great American leaders. His Presidency was dominated by the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was born on 12 February 1809 near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was brought up in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. His schoolmate and playmate Benjamin Gollaher (aka "Austin" Gollaher) was the son of poor pioneers. Lincoln himself was largely self-educated. In 1836, he qualified as a lawyer and went to work in a law practice in Springfield, Illinois. He sat in the State Legislature from 1834 to 1842 and in 1846 was elected to Congress, representing the Whig Party for one term. He joined the new Republican Party in 1856 and in 1860 was asked to run as its Presidential candidate. In the Presidential Campaign, Lincoln made his opposition to slavery very clear. His victory provoked a crisis, with many southerners fearing that he would attempt to abolish slavery in the South. Seven southern states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy. Four more joined later. Lincoln vowed to
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Earliest photo of Congressman-elect, Abraham Lincoln, 1846/1847