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LINCOLN LEGACY
Timothy S. Goeglein
Fort Wayne has had a decades-long love affair with Abraham Lincoln and his legacy.
One of the most prominent corporations in America, the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, born and built in Fort Wayne, is named for the 16th president.
I spent many a happy childhood afternoon at the now-shuttered Abraham Lincoln Museum where, on entering that august institution, the first thing a visitor gazed upon was a small letter in a glass case from Lincoln s only surviving son, Robert Todd Lincoln, giving his permission and approval to the founders of Lincoln National to use his father s name.
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Edward Achorn, Atlantic Monthly Press, 416 pages
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address is counted as one of his most memorable speeches. Containing just 700 words, it is inscribed in stone in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, along with the Gettysburg Address.
The Second Inaugural Address was unique in being the first Lincoln speech that condemned slavery as an unmitigated evil. It brought to an end decades in which the question of slavery had been the subject of repeated attempts at compromise aimed at establishing a
modus vivendi between the slaveholding South and the North.
Every Drop of Blood
A new book by Providence, Rhode Island, journalist Edward Achorn traces the events surrounding Lincoln’s second inauguration and follows several side stories relating to the lives of African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, assassin John Wilkes Booth, and poet Walt Whitman.
Criticized for being a spendthrift and dismissed as hysterical, Mary Lincoln's time as first lady and her role in Abraham Lincoln's presidency remains divisive to this day. Mercurial and vain, the first lady's weaknesses did occasionally outnumber her strengths, writes Catherine Clinton. But her role in Abraham Lincoln's rise to the White House can't be ignored.