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Lincoln Raises a Pole, or, The Horrible Death of John Brodie
August, 1844. The presidential election between Henry Clay and James K. Polk was in full swing, and Abraham Lincoln and his fellow Springfield Whigs had a mission:They needed to raise a pole.The...
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Lincoln and the Ex Presidents, Part 1: Martin Van Buren
By the summer of 1842 the United States was more than a year into John Tyler’s presidency, and both Whigs and Democrats considered Tyler a disaster. They called him “His Accidency,” a reference to the...
View ArticleA Favor for a Special Friend: Lincoln Visits Sick and Wounded Soldiers in the...
Rebecca Pomeroy came into Abraham Lincoln’s life during the dark and unhappy period following the death of his son Willie of typhoid in February, 1862. She was an army nurse dispatched by Dorothea Dix...
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The Liability of Lincoln’s Looks: Another Suggestion that Lincoln Grow a Beard
Today Abraham Lincoln’s image is most familiar for two iconic traits: his stovepipe hat and his beard. He probably had been wearing the stovepipe hat throughout the 1850s (the hat at the Abraham...
View ArticleLincoln Writes Poems to Two Young Girls during the 1858 Campaign
Abraham Lincoln was used to crisscrossing Illinois – the central portion of it, anyway – for his law practice, but in the late summer and early fall of 1858 his busy travel schedule grew downright...
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The Lincolns Follow a Grisly Boston Murder Trial
In the winter of 1849-1850 the town of Boston was rocked by the murder of one of its most prominent citizens. Dr. George Parkman belonged to one of the city’s wealthiest families and was personally...
View ArticleLincoln's Lost Journals?
Who doesn’t dream of finding another copy of the Gettysburg Address tucked in the pages of an old book at a flea market, or perhaps stumbling across Lincoln’s lost letters to his wife in a forgotten...
View ArticleLincoln Loved to Whittle
Whittling was a common pastime for men in an era where most men carried a pocketknife and life moved at a much more leisurely pace. Lincoln was among those who practiced this quaint hobby; there are...
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