abraham lincoln

Both of those are great songs. Both are played regularly at patriotic concerts. Both songs are in the medley "An American Pageant", which has been played at every presidential inauguration at least since Ronald Reagan.  

The Investors Savings Bank Foundation, which provides charitable grants to programs that enhance the neighborhoods the bank serves, has awarded $5,000 in support of the Scotch Plains Public Library's scheduled Abraham Lincoln exhibit. The library is one of only 40 sites nationally — and the only library in New Jersey — selected to host the Gilder Lehman Institute of American History's traveling exhibition, "Abraham Lincoln: A Man For His Time, A Man For All Times." The three-week program, scheduled to b  

I'm very sad today, and frustrated, and a bit confused. With passage of the House health care reform bill, I'm left wondering where the America I love is heading and what has happened to freedom. It seems as though we have entered an alternate land in some strange Twilight Zone episode -- a land wholly different from the one that has helped shape the course of this world for over two centuries.  

Less than a month before the start of the Civil War, a newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln took time from his frantic schedule to write to a child in Illinois whose classmates didn't believe he'd met the president. A company that buys and sells historic documents sold the letter for $60,000 to a private collector and civil war buff. The Raab Collection in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania originally purchased the note from another collector, said Nathan Raab, the company's vice president.

To Whom it may concern, I did see and talk with master George Evans Patten, last May, at Springfield, Illinois. Respectfully, A Lincoln.   -Harold Holzer

 

The following is an excerpt from The First Assassin , by John J. Miller. When Lorenzo Smith heard the chugging of the train, he felt for the revolver at his side. His fingers met its smooth handle, hidden beneath his black coat.  

In Plymouth, on Thursday, there was a flurry of last-minute preparations in anticipation of the town's Thanksgiving parade and celebration. Crews worked to put the finishing touches on the floats that will travel down the parade route on Saturday. Those floats promise to be both creative and well-crafted.  

The November meeting of The Athene Study Group was Friday, Nov. 13, at the home of Joyce Riss. The speaker was Luceille Werner, who discussed many little known facts about the life of Abraham Lincoln, including a book titled, "Abraham Lincoln's Two Mothers," by Dorothy Clarke Wilson. Twelve members attended. The December meeting will be the annual Christmas party at the Pines restaurant Friday, Dec. 11.  

Have you made a will? Chances are that you haven't – but that you mean to. We tend to assume that we won't die without making one.  

Thanksgiving wasn't always just about family, food and football. The First National Proclamation of Thanksgiving was given by the Continental Congress in 1777 and recognized "the Trade and Manufactures of the People, and the Labor of the Husbandman." And in 1863 the modern Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November, was proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln who gave thanks to the work of "the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe [that] had enlarged the borders of our s