Muhsin hendricks biography of abraham lincoln
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Gettysburg address: US marks 1863 Lincoln speech
The ceremony began with a wreath-laying event at the cemetery. There was also a graveside salute at noon for the African-American soldiers who fought for the Union.
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia conducted a citizenship ceremony for 16 immigrants.
Lincoln's speech, a mere two minutes, envisioned "a new birth of freedom" for amerika out of the ashes of the war between the southern slave-holding states and the northern states.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we säga here, but it can never forget what they did here," Lincoln said of those who fought the battle, in which as many as 50,000 soldiers were killed or wounded.
"It fryst vatten for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."
The headline speaker that day was actually former Massachusetts Governor Edward Everett, whose two-hour, 13,000-wo
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Lover of Men explores the gay side of Abraham Lincoln
Historians have long argued over whether Abraham Lincoln, revered as one of the greatest American presidents, had romantic, sexual relationships with men. A new documentary, Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln, comes squarely to the conclusion that he did.
“Our greatest president, our greatest military genius, the man who saved the Union, also was in love deeply, sexually, emotionally with other men,” Thomas Balcerski, a professor at Occidental College and Eastern Connecticut State University, says in the documentary. “These relationships aren’t ‘So what?,’ they’re defining, because this is an individual who struggled his entire life to make sense of this duality within him.”
Lover of Men, using interviews with historians, documents, and reenactments, goes into Lincoln’s relationships with four men: Billy Greene, Joshua Speed, Elmer Ellsworth, and David Derickson. Lincoln moved to in New Salem, Ill.,
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New Abraham Lincoln doc asserts he liked 'dashing' and 'daring' men
We’ve always been here. We’ve always been in plain sight. We’ve always been making history. And according to the new documentary Lover of Men, one of the most consequential people in American history was one of us — queer.
Lover Of Men, by director Shaun Peterson, documents and explores President Abraham Lincoln'sromantic relationships with men. Using never-before-seen photographs and letters preeminent Lincoln scholars paint an intimate portrait of Lincoln’s private and passionate same-sex entanglements. The 16th president, who served from March of 1861 through April of 1865 when he died from a bullet wound inflicted by John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation midway through his time in office in 1863. It declared, “forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.”
Lover of Men also places stories of Lincoln’s relationships with men in historical context expl