Not Just Lincoln's Tomb Oak Ridge Cemetery
Not Just Lincoln's Tomb Oak Ridge Cemetery

Author: Robert Lawson

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 164462950X

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President Lincoln's final resting place is more than just a cemetery. Oak Ridge is the second most visited cemetery in the United States, only Arlington has more visitors each year. It is a place of histories and stories. It is the final resting place of politicians, generals, and heroes. Even some of the private citizens have some interesting stories. This work will take you from the Black Hawk War to the corruption of some early governors. In addition, you will learn about one of the world's best con artists. Find out why there is a gravesite with a buried accordion. Find out how race relations and union tensions came to a head in Illinois to help form the NAACP.

Stealing Lincoln’s Body
Stealing Lincoln’s Body

Author: Thomas J. Craughwell

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0674030397

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In a lively and dramatic narrative, Thomas J. Craughwell returns to this bizarre, and largely forgotten, event with the first book to place the grave robbery in historical context.

Lincoln at Peoria
Lincoln at Peoria

Author: Lewis E. Lehrman

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2008-06-13

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0811741036

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The pivotal speech that changed the course of Lincoln's career and America's history. Complete examination of the speech, including the full text delivered in 1854 in Peoria, Illinois.

Lincoln
Lincoln

Author: Philip B. Kunhardt

Publisher: Gramercy

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780517207154

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This illustrated biography of the 16th president of the United States was originally a companion volume to a historic television documentary. It includes recreated images of Lincoln and his contemporaries from photographs, daguerreotypes, prints and cartoons of the day.

199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die
199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die

Author: Loren Rhoads

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0316473790

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A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.

Mary Lincoln for the Ages
Mary Lincoln for the Ages

Author: Jason Emerson

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

Published: 2019-04-19

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0809336758

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In this sweeping analytical bibliography, Jason Emerson goes beyond the few sources usually employed to contextualize Mary Lincoln’s life and thoroughly reexamines nearly every word ever written about her. In doing so, this book becomes the prime authority on Mary Lincoln, points researchers to key underused sources, reveals how views about her have evolved over the years, and sets the stage for new questions and debates about the themes and controversies that have defined her legacy. Mary Lincoln for the Ages first articulates how reliance on limited sources has greatly restricted our understanding of the subject, evaluating their flaws and benefits and pointing out the shallowness of using the same texts to study her life. Emerson then presents more than four hundred bibliographical entries of nonfiction books and pamphlets, scholarly and popular articles, journalism, literature, and juvenilia. More than just listings of titles and publication dates, each entry includes Emerson’s deft analysis of these additional works on Mary Lincoln that should be used—but rarely have been—to better understand who she was during her life and why we see her as we do. The volume also includes rarely used illustrations, including some that have never before appeared in print. A roadmap for a firmer, more complete grasp of Mary Lincoln’s place in the historical record, this is the first and only extensive, analytical bibliography of the subject. In highlighting hundreds of overlooked sources, Emerson changes the paradigm of Mary Lincoln’s legacy.

Going Driftless
Going Driftless

Author: Stephen J. Lyons

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1493015664

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Going Driftless is a book that explores a whole world within a world in the upper Midwest and looks at the nostalgia of small towns and local living (eating, shopping, etc.)—and asks how does it work what lessons can we learn from it.

Lincoln
Lincoln

Author: Richard Carwardine

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-01-09

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 030726467X

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As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as complex as it is compelling. In this superb, prize-winning biography, acclaimed historian Richard Carwardine examines Lincoln’s dramatic political journey, from his early years in the Illinois legislature to his nation-shaping years in the White House. Here, Carwardine combines a new perspective with a compelling narrative to deliver a fresh look at one of the pillars of American politics. He probes the sources of Lincoln’s moral and political philosophy and uses his groundbreaking research to cut through the myth and expose the man behind it.

Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History

Author: Richard Wightman Fox

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-02-09

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0393247244

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"[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling." —Jill Lepore, New York Times Book Review Abraham Lincoln remains America’s most beloved leader. The fact that he was lampooned in his day as "ugly and grotesque" only made Lincoln more endearing to millions. In Lincoln’s Body, acclaimed cultural historian Richard Wightman Fox explores how deeply, and how differently, Americans—black and white, male and female, Northern and Southern—have valued our sixteenth president, from his own lifetime to the Hollywood biopics about him. Lincoln continues to survive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.