The “Great Emancipator” and the “Grim Chieftain” Jason H. Silverman Abraham Lincoln was in trouble – and the fate of the United States tenuously hung in the balance. The firing on Fort Sumter, five weeks after Lincoln took office, ominously...
Jason H. Silverman
The “Great Emancipator” and the “Grim Chieftain”
Lost to History: Abraham Lincoln’s Act to Encourage Immigration
Lost to History: Abraham Lincoln’s Act to Encourage Immigration By: Jason H. Silverman Sometimes it’s difficult to believe that anything Abraham Lincoln did was lost to history. But historians have overlooked one of President Lincoln’s signature pieces of legislation, The...
Lincoln’s Magician: The Saga of Captain Horatio G. “Harry” Cooke
The author wishes to express his deep gratitude and appreciation to professional magicians par excellence, Dean Carnegie and Mark Cannon, for their crucial assistance with this article. They generously provided me with some very important primary sources and much needed...
“One War at a Time”: Abraham Lincoln and the Monroe Doctrine in Latin America
Jason H. Silverman Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America und Mexico, 71200908501056 The darkening clouds of Civil War were not all the portentous developments that newly elected Abraham Lincoln faced when he arrived in Washington, DC. With the United States seemingly weakened...
The Long Twisting Road: Abraham Lincoln’s Evolving World with the Foreign Born
LN-0235 Immigration? Abraham Lincoln? Absolutely. Lincoln lived in an era when immigration was as much a controversial matter as it is today. Between 1840 and 1860 four and a half million newcomers arrived, most of them from Ireland, the German...