Edward Sabine (born October 14, , Dublin—died June 26, , East Sheen, Surrey, England) was an Anglo-Irish astronomer and geodesist noted for his experiments in determining the shape of Earth and for his studies of Earth’s magnetic field.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, , then in Hardin, now in the more recently formed county of La Rue, Kentucky. His father, Thomas, and grandfather, Abraham, were born in Rockingham County, Virginia, whither their ancestors had come from Berks County, Pennsylvania. His lineage has been traced no father back than this.

From riveting biographies to texts covering his leadership during the Civil War, we bring you a guide to the best books on Abraham Lincoln.

Of the dozen Lincoln biographies I read, two were Pulitzer Prize winners, one is the second best-read presidential biography of all time, and six held the distinction of being the definitive Lincoln biography at one time or another.

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Eric Foner, a professor of history at Columbia University and author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, recommends Donald's book as the best one-volume account of Lincoln's.

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To that, I'd probably add the Gienapp book, Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, the Sidney Blumenthal trilogy starting with A Self-Made Man, and even the old Carl Sandburg books, which were the standard popular biography for decades. The last has been surpassed long ago, but they're still valuable to see where someone who could be brutally.

From the opening pages of American Ending, Mary Kay Zuravleff’s new novel, narrator Yelena Federoff draws the reader into her vivid and gritty world as the first American-born daughter of a Russian coal miner and his wife.

Who Was Abraham Lincoln? Abraham Lincoln was the 16 th president of the United States, serving from to , and is regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes due to his roles.

Lincoln began reading Pope’s work in his teens and returned to An Essay on Man, Pope’s great philosophical poem, on numerous occasions in his adult life. He quoted a line from it in his speech before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in Milwaukee on 30 September

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“My Song is About Stars That Go Missing Every Night” August 5, – Iranian American musician and songwriter Marjan Farsad released a new song today about political prisoners in Iran, a country where people are jailed for peacefully exercising basic human rights such as free speech. Produced by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), Farsad’s newly released Persian-language song.

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