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Lincoln of Kentucky
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Lowell Harrison
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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"Young Abraham Lincoln and his family joined the migration over the Ohio River, but it was Kentucky--the state of his birth--that shaped his personality and con
The Three Kentucky Presidents
Language: en
Pages: 98
Authors: Holman Hamilton
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-17 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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The three Kentucky presidents—Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis—were profoundly shaped by their experiences in Kentucky, poised as it was
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally
Language: en
Pages: 433
Authors: Leonard, Elizabeth
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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This manuscript is the first biography of Joseph Holt, the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General during the Civil War. Leonard argues that Holt has been portrayed
Lincoln Legends
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Edward SteersJr.
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-12 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president. The mythmaking about this self-made man began early, so
Act of Justice
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Burrus M. Carnahan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-21 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would "have no lawful right" to interfere with the institution of slavery. Yet les