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27 Feb 2020, 4:48 pm
" Abraham Lincoln got the White House only because of the Electoral College, having received 39.8% of the popular vote. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 8:59 pm
“Speaking statistically, this GOP donor wants to convince you that money buys justice in Texas; After losing a case at the all-Republican Texas Supreme Court, millionaire Salem Abraham set out to mathematically test the idea that campaign contributions influence the elected justices; Now he wants to change the system”: Emma Platoff of The Texas Tribune has this report. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 6:43 am
In fact, this is how Abraham Lincoln trained to become an attorney. [read post]
22 Feb 2020, 5:25 am
Abraham has started Choice and Dignity, a right-to-die non-profit in Tucson, Arizona. [read post]
21 Feb 2020, 9:30 pm
"Lincoln collector and scholar Guy Fraker” donates a pleading written by Abraham Lincoln to the McLean County Museum of History. [read post]
20 Feb 2020, 11:37 am
Lucy Dillon, Mary Abraham, Oz Benamram, and I organize the meeting each year. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 10:07 am
In addition to Ervin and Cranston, influential Democratic senators such as Birch Bayh, Hubert Humphrey, Edward Kennedy, Edmund Muskie and Abraham Ribicoff were active in these reform efforts. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:11 am
The Library has already launched several successful campaigns where thousands of dedicated volunteers have transcribed nearly 100,000 pages from a range of historic documents, such as an entire diary of an American Civil War soldier, letters to President Abraham Lincoln, the letters, diaries and speeches of leading suffragists such as Susan B. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:11 am
La Biblioteca del Congreso ya ha lanzado múltiples campañas exitosas donde miles de voluntarios han transcrito casi 100,000 páginas de una variedad de documentos, como el diario de un soldado de la guerra civil estadounidense, cartas al presidente Abraham Lincoln, las cartas, los diarios y los discursos de líderes sufragistas como Susan B. [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 12:30 am
Wall Street Journal Essay: What the Bible Taught Lincoln About America, by Meir Soloveichik (Yeshiva) (co-author, Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States (Oxford University Press 2003)): When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, he was certainly not thought of as a man given... [read post]
16 Feb 2020, 5:14 am
" Abraham Lincoln Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Civil War Photographs, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-B8184-3287.]Abraham Lincoln, July 1, 1850The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. [read post]
14 Feb 2020, 10:11 am
Sharpen Your Axe Before Taking a Swing An apocryphal quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln was, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. [read post]
11 Feb 2020, 2:23 pm
I have co-organized it with Lucy Dillon, Mary Abraham, and Oz Benamram for 15+ years. [read post]
10 Feb 2020, 8:27 am
The committee will hear testimony from Alina Polyakova, the president and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis; Abraham Denmark, the director of the Asia program at the Wilson Center; and Thomas Mahnken, the president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. [read post]
8 Feb 2020, 2:45 pm
After Mick Abrahams, the original guitarist for Jethro Tull, left the band after a dispute with Ian Anderson about the musical direction of the band (This Was, Tull's debut, was a much more British blues-style album than later work), Abrahams... [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 11:00 am
After two weeks of impeachment trial hearings, the Senate has acquitted President Trump. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 12:43 pm
Chosen to commemorate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, February serves as an annual opportunity to recognize the struggles and achievements of black Americans. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 4:41 am
The powerful Whig leader in the Senate, Daniel Webster, opposed it, as did a young Representative from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
31 Jan 2020, 12:16 pm
He argues that, if impeachment for mixed motives is permitted, then Abraham Lincoln could have been impeached for sending Union soldiers away from the front lines to vote Republican in a state election during the Civil War, or Barack Obama could have been impeached if his decision not to enforce his “red line” against Syria was in any way motivated by political calculations. [read post]
30 Jan 2020, 1:06 pm
This post offers concluding thoughts about the Ackies tracking device case, which I have written about here, here, and here. [read post]
