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Schlesinger, the author of "Cycles of AmericanHistory," also discussed "the extreme brevity ofAmerican history," He recalled that as a youth hisfather told him of conversations with former Harvard PresidentA Lawrence Lowell, who admitted his embarassmentthat Lowell's father voted for Abraham Lincoln inthe 1860 Presidential election...

Author: By Michael A. Levitt, | Title: Schlesinger: Scholars Ignore Political History | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...continuing love of the word I am indeed grateful. At my present age I can recapture almost perfectly -- perhaps totally perfectly -- the emotion I felt when I first read certain pieces. I have just read again Whitman's threnody on the death of Abraham Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Literary Remembrance | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Unfortunately, a lot of the Civil War myths remain. We teach our children that the war was fought to end slavery because we can't teach them the truth--that hundreds of thousands of Americans were sacrificed so that Abraham Lincoln could be the president of both Boston and Baton Rouge...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: A Hall Divided | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

...President-elect Abraham Lincoln made his way East from Illinois. Much of the world regarded him as a coarse and faintly ridiculous country lawyer. Lincoln proved to be a complex historical surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Gravitas Factor | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...Southern Cal for study. Only a few dozen have been developed so far, but they have already shed new light on the customs of the ancient Jews and the cultural backdrop against which Christianity developed. Most startling are new passages that record in great detail the physical beauty of Abraham's wife Sarah. These include descriptions of the contours of Sarah's breasts, which Charlesworth interprets as proof that Judaic culture was not as puritanical or repressed as many scholars have suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: When The Dead Are Revived | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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