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Looking for Lincoln in Illinois: Lincoln's Springfield: Looking for Lincoln

Autor Bryon C. Andreasen Cuvânt înainte de Guy C. Fraker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2015
Winner, ISHS Certificate of Excellence Award, 2016

Presenting fifty Abraham Lincoln stories—some familiar and beloved, some fresh and unexpected—Looking for Lincoln in Illinois: Lincoln’s Springfield is a carefully researched, richly illustrated guide to the Springfield, Illinois, locations on the Looking for Lincoln Story Trail. Created by the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition, this trail consists of more than two hundred illustrated storyboards posted at sites of significance to Lincoln’s life and career across fifty-two communities in Illinois. The storyboards connect Lincoln-related tales to the geographical locations where they occurred, giving visitors, and now readers, a tour of the social and cultural landscape of Lincoln’s nineteenth-century world while revealing the very human Lincoln known by friends and associates.
This book celebrates the trail as a rich historical resource, featuring the original storyboards produced for Springfield and including twelve additional stories and more than 150 illustrations. Engaging stories in the book bring Lincoln’s Springfield to life: Lincoln created controversy with his Temperance Address, which he delivered in a church on Fourth Street in February 1842. He unexpectedly married Mary Todd in her sister’s home on the edge of Springfield later that year. The Lincolns’ sons used to harness dogs and cats to small wagons and drive them around the dirt streets of town. When Lincoln visited his dentist, he applied his own chloroform, because the practice of analgesia was not yet common. He reportedly played the ball game Fives in a downtown alley while waiting for news of his presidential nomination. And boxing heavyweight champion John C. Heenan visited the presidential candidate in October 1860. Through texts, historic photographs and images, and maps, including one keyed to the story locations in downtown Springfield, readers of this fascinating volume are invited to imagine social and cultural landscapes that have been lost in time.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780809333820
ISBN-10: 0809333821
Pagini: 128
Ilustrații: 164
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: Southern Illinois University Press
Colecția Southern Illinois University Press
Seria Looking for Lincoln


Notă biografică

Bryon C. Andreasen is a historian at the LDS Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. He previously was a research historian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and the editor of the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. He lives in Bountiful, Utah, near Salt Lake City.

Cuprins

Foreword
Guy C. Fraker

Preface

Map of Springfield
Map of Old State Capitol public square

1. Lincoln’s Springfield
2. In Their Springfield Prime
3. The Lincoln Boys’ Springfield
4. Samuel S. Ball’s Bath & Barber Shop
5. C. M. & S. Smith Store
6. Lincoln’s Dentist
7. Curran’s Jewelry Shop
8. Lincoln’s Invention
9. Mary Lincoln’s Wedding Ring
10. Lincoln’s Hat
11. Illinois State Register Office
12. Campaign Poles
13. Fourth Street Cottage
14. Lincoln’s Temperance Address
15. Globe Tavern
16. First Presbyterian Church
17. Lincoln’s Funeral Train
18. Boardinghouse Romance?
19. Chenery House
20. Brunswick’s Billiard Hall
21. Stuart & Lincoln Law Office
22. Joshua Speed’s Store
23. Lincoln’s Last Law Office
24. Simeon Francis Home
25. The “Ball Alley”
26. Springfield Marine & Fire Insurance Company
27. Corneau & Diller Drug Store
28. Cook’s Hall
29. The American House
30. William Florville’s Barber Shop
31. Lincoln-Era Fire Companies
32. The Lyceum
33. Lincoln’s Carriage Maker
34. Mary Lincoln’s Funeral
35. The Children’s Lincoln
36. Mary Lincoln’s Family
37. Lincoln’s Horse
38. Lincoln and Animals
39. Great Western Railroad Depot
40. Animal Problems
41. Republican Wigwams
42. Political Rallies and Parades
43. Wide-Awakes
44. Masonic Hall
45. Leaping Lincoln
46. Virgil Hickox Home
47. Clark and Ann Smith Home (Vachel Lindsay Home)
48. Illinois Executive Mansion
49. Ninian and Elizabeth Edwards Home
50. Mather’s Grove

Recenzii

“This brief volume contains a wealth of information shedding a bright light on both ‘Lincoln’s Springfield’ and ‘Springfield’s Lincoln.’ It is especially helpful for those wishing to know more about Lincoln sites above and beyond the home, tomb, law office, and capitol.”—Michael Burlingame, Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, University of Illinois Springfield

"This is a delightful journey along the highways and byways of the circuit traveled by lawyer Lincoln during his twenty-four year legal career. It essentially demonstrates his “experiential” rather than formal education." ––Frank J. Williams, The Civil War Monitor

Descriere

Presenting fifty Abraham Lincoln stories—some familiar and beloved, some fresh and unexpected—Looking for Lincoln in Illinois: Lincoln’s Springfield is a carefully researched, richly illustrated guide to the Looking for Lincoln Story Trail.