The “Great Emancipator” and the “Grim Chieftan”
by Jason H. SilvermanThe “Great Emancipator” and the “Grim Chieftain” Jason H. Silverman Abraham Lincoln was in trouble – and the fate of the United States tenuously hung in the balance. The firing on Fort Sumter, five weeks after Lincoln took office, ominously signaled the start of civil war. This act, the President proclaimed, “forced upon the country […]
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Lost to History: Abraham Lincoln’s Act to Encourage Immigration
by Jason H. SilvermanLost to History: Abraham Lincoln’s Act to Encourage Immigration By: Jason H. Silverman Sometimes it’s difficult to believe that anything Abraham Lincoln did was lost to history. But historians have overlooked one of President Lincoln’s signature pieces of legislation, The Act to Encourage Immigration, July 4th, 1864, the first, last, and only major law in […]
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Lincoln’s Magician: The Saga of Captain Horatio G. “Harry” Cooke
by Jason H. SilvermanThe author wishes to express his deep gratitude and appreciation to professional magicians par excellence, Dean Carnegie and Mark Cannon, for their crucial assistance with this article. They generously provided me with some very important primary sources and much needed materials for this article. The name Horatio Green “Harry” Cooke is not one usually bandied […]
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“One War at a Time”: Abraham Lincoln and the Monroe Doctrine in Latin America
by Jason H. SilvermanJason H. Silverman Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America und Mexico, 71200908501056 The darkening clouds of Civil War were not all the portentous developments that newly elected Abraham Lincoln faced when he arrived in Washington, DC. With the United States seemingly weakened by deep internal divisions, the European empires made one last attempt to regain their hold […]
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The Long Twisting Road: Abraham Lincoln’s Evolving World with the Foreign Born
by Jason H. SilvermanLN-0235 Immigration? Abraham Lincoln? Absolutely. Lincoln lived in an era when immigration was as much a controversial matter as it is today. Between 1840 and 1860 four and a half million newcomers arrived, most of them from Ireland, the German states, and Scandinavian countries. Many more crossed back and forth across the border with Mexico, […]
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