see still more earthquakes occurring. but as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is abraham lincoln. touched very briefly in our last session by way of , andduction of lincoln just to go through some of the details once again, abraham lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. his parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hunting bill, kentucky in a, log cabin quite literally. in 1818, his parents uproot from kentucky and move northwards across the ohio river into southern indiana. that is where lincoln grows up. alas, that is also where lincoln s mother dies. lincoln s father goes back to kentucky, remarries, and lincoln now has a stepmother, sarah bush johnston. and what is almost an inversion of the old hansel and gretel story of the wicked stepmother is actually something of the reverse for abraham lincoln, because sarah bush johnston really becom
his class is about 50 minutes. allen guelzo: welcome once again to civil war era studies 205, introduction to the american civil war era. we are now in our third week in this course and my what ground we have covered thus far. we have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850 s now. we are talking about the crises of the 1850 s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansas-nebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. but as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is abraham lincoln. we touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, abraham lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. his parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginsville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. in 1818, his parents u
GREENSBURG — Evansville attorney and Abraham Lincoln scholar Joshua Claybourn will present a program at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 20, at the Greensburg/Decatur County Public Library, 1110 E. Main Street.