Abraham Lincoln

Published: 6/1/12

Sinbad Lincoln and the Old Man of the Sea

By: Laura June Davis

Category: Cartoons

Good Morning! Today’s Friday Funny is Frank Leslie’s “Sinbad Lincoln and the Old Man of the Sea.” A clear critique of Gideon Welles, the Union Secretary of the Navy, this...

Published: 4/2/12

Three Hundred Thousand More

By: Laura June Davis

Category: The Front Line

Good afternoon! Today we bring you an 1862 song written by John S. Gibbons, to aid Lincoln’s call for 300,000 more Union troops. It first appeared in the New York...

Published: 2/20/12

Rest in Peace Willie Lincoln

By: Laura June Davis

Category: Civilians

“My poor boy, he was too good for this earth. God has called him home. I know that he is much better off in heaven, but then we loved him...

Published: 2/12/12

Happy 203rd Birthday Abraham Lincoln

By: Laura June Davis

Category: The Front Line

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln – Image Credit: “President elect, Abraham Lincoln Portrait...

Published: 11/22/11

Voice from the Past – A Thanksgiving Day Proclamation

By: Laura June Davis

Category: The Front Line

While Americans had celebrated Thanksgiving since 1621, it was not until 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln issued the following Thanksgiving Day Proclamation. Only then, did the holiday became a national...

Published: 10/11/11

D. W. Griffith’s Other Civil War Movie

By: Andy Hall

Category: The Front Line

The infamous director’s 1930 biography of Lincoln was one of only two “talkies” made by Griffith, and stars Walter Huston in the title role. The screenplay is by Stephen...