<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 — Influence."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 — Influence."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/skokielibrary/rss/search?query=%22Lincoln%2C%20Abraham%2C%201809-1865%20%E2%80%94%20Influence.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:01:02 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Lincoln & Churchill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, as commanders in chief, led their nations to victory--Lincoln in the Civil War, Churchill in World War II. They became revered leaders--statesmen for all time. Yet these two world-famous war leaders have never been seriously compared at book length. Acclaimed historian Lewis Lehrman, in his pathbreaking comparison of both statesmen, finds that Lincoln and Churchill--with very different upbringings and contrasting personalities--led their war efforts, to some extent, in similar ways. As supreme war lords, they were guided not only by principles of honor, duty, freedom, but also by the practical wisdom to know when, where, and how to apply these principles. They made mistakes which Lehrman considers carefully. But the author emphasizes that, despite setbacks, they never gave up. Even their writings and speeches were swords in battle. Gifted literary stylists, both men relied on the written and spoken word to steel their citizens throughout desperate and prolonged wars. Both statesmen unexpectedly left office near the end of their wars--Lincoln by the bullet, Churchill by the ballot.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2796581</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2796581</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lehrman, Lewis E.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2796581133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Statesmen at War</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780811719674/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lincoln Memorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why was the Lincoln Memorial built? Readers learn about the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and what it means to be free"- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3458345</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3458345</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rustad, Martha E. H.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3458345133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Symbol of Fairness</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798765668337/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Age of Reconstruction]]></title><description><![CDATA[How Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements globally In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the US, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies, Cubans rose against Spanish rule, France overthrew Napoleon III, and the kingdom of Pope Pius IX fell before the Italian Risorgimento. Some European liberals even called for a "United States of Europe." Yet for all its achievements and optimism, this "new birth of freedom" was short-lived. By the 1890s, Reconstruction had been undone in the US and abroad and America had become an exclusionary democracy based on white supremacy-and a very different kind of model to the world. At home and abroad, America's Reconstruction was, as W. E. B. Du Bois wrote, "the greatest and most important step toward world democracy of all men of all races ever taken in the modern world." The Age of Reconstruction is a bracing history of a remarkable period when democracy, having survived the great test of the Civil War, was ascendant around the Atlantic world.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3387599</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3387599</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doyle, Don Harrison]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3387599133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>The Legacy of the Civil War and the New Birth of Freedom Abroad</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798855506891/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Ancient Faith]]></title><description><![CDATA["Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know less about Lincoln's penetrating ideas and beliefs about democracy, which were every bit as important as his character in sustaining him through the crisis. Allen C. Guelzo, one of America's foremost experts on Lincoln, captures the president's firmly held belief that democracy was the greatest political achievement in human history. He shows how Lincoln's deep commitment to the balance between majority and minority rule enabled him to stand firm against secession while also committing the Union to reconciliation rather than recrimination in the aftermath of war. In bringing his subject to life as a rigorous and visionary thinker, Guelzo assesses Lincoln's actions on civil liberties and his views on race, and explains why his vision for the role of government would have made him a pivotal president even if there had been no Civil War."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3335664</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3335664</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Guelzo, Allen C.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3335664133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593534441/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wide Awake]]></title><description><![CDATA["At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes--mostly working-class Americans in their twenties--became one of the largest, most spectacular, and most influential political movements in our history. To some, it demonstrated the power of a rising majority to push back against slavery. To others, it looked like a paramilitary force training to invade the South. Within a year, the nation would be at war with itself, and many on both sides would point to the Wide Awakes as the mechanism that got them there."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3365762</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3365762</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grinspan, Jon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3365762133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781639730643/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lincoln and the Fight for Peace]]></title><description><![CDATA["A groundbreaking, revelatory history of Abraham Lincoln's plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War-a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world's most famous peacemakers, including Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a story of war and peace, race and reconciliation"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3133702</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3133702</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Avlon, John P.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3133702133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982108120/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Drop of Blood]]></title><description><![CDATA[A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story-Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. After a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the war's unimaginable horrors-every drop of blood spilled-might well have been God's just verdict on the national sin of slavery. Edward Achorn reveals the nation's capital on that momentous day-with its mud, sewage, and saloons, its prostitutes, spies, reporters, social-climbing spouses and power-hungry politicians-as a microcosm of all the opposing forces that had driven the country apart. A host of characters, unknown and famous, had converged on Washington-from grievously wounded Union colonel Selden Connor in a Washington hospital and the embarrassingly drunk new vice president, Andrew Johnson, to poet-journalist Walt Whitman; from soldiers' advocate Clara Barton and African American leader and Lincoln critic-turned-admirer Frederick Douglass (who called the speech "a sacred effort") to conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth-all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln. In indelible scenes, Achorn vividly captures the frenzy in the nation's capital at this crucial moment in America's history and the tension-filled hope and despair afflicting the country as a whole, soon to be heightened by Lincoln's assassination. His story offers new understanding of our great national crisis, and echoes down the decades to resonate in our own time.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2967058</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2967058</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Achorn, Edward]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2967058133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802148766/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Drop of Blood]]></title><description><![CDATA["By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. That day, after a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the war's unimaginable horrors-every drop of blood spilled-might well have been God's just verdict on the national sin of slavery. Edward Achorn reveals the nation's capital on that momentous day-with its mud, sewage, and saloons, its prostitutes, spies, reporters, social-climbing spouses, and power-hungry politicians-as a microcosm of all the opposing forces that had driven the country apart. Achorn weaves together the stories of the host of characters, unknown and famous, that had converged on Washington-from grievously wounded Union colonel Selden Connor in a Washington hospital, embarrassingly drunk new vice president Andrew Johnson, and poet-journalist Walt Whitman, to soldiers' advocate Clara Barton, African American leader Frederick Douglass (who called the speech "a sacred effort"), and conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth-all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln. In indelible scenes, Achorn vividly captures the frenzy in the nation's capital at this crucial moment in America's history and the tension-filled hope and despair afflicting the country as a whole, soon to be heightened by Lincoln's assassination."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2963372</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2963372</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Achorn, Edward]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2963372133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802148742/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lincoln Memorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Lincoln Memorial was built to honor our country's 16th president. The marble and limestone memorial sits on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Discover the story behind this famous national landmark. Bring augmented reality to your students by downloading the free Capstone 4D app and scanning for access to an online article, video, and discussion questions.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2896424</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2896424</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Edison, Erin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2896424133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A 4D Book</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781543531305/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forged in Crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Presents a portrait of five extraordinary figures--Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson--to illuminate how great leaders are made in times of adversity and the diverse skills they summon in order to prevail.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2765710</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2765710</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koehn, Nancy F.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2765710133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501174445/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lincoln's Body]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us.The very roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more common, one of us--as did his sense of humor about his own awkward physical nature.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2082147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2082147</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fox, Richard Wightman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2082147133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Cultural History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393065305/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Called Him Rabbi Abraham]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1878838</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1878838</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1878838133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Lincoln and American Jewry : A Documentary History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780809332922/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lincoln's Boys]]></title><description><![CDATA[A timely and intimate look into Abraham Lincoln's White House through the lives of his two closest aides and confidants.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1887591</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1887591</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Zeitz, Joshua]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1887591133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln&apos;s Image</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780670025664/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lincoln Lessons]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1592077</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1592077</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1592077133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Reflections on America&apos;s Greatest Leader</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780809328918/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impeached]]></title><description><![CDATA[This account of the attempt to remove Andrew Johnson from the presidency demolishes the myth that Johnson's impeachment was unjustified.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1590613</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1590613</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stewart, David O.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1590613133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln&apos;s Legacy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781416547495/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forge of Empires, 1861-1871]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1530969</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1530969</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Beran, Michael Knox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1530969133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780743270694/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Land of Lincoln]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1519721</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1519721</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ferguson, Andrew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1519721133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Adventures in Abe&apos;s America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780871139672/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Lincoln Matters]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1430037</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1430037</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cuomo, Mario Matthew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1430037133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Today More Than Ever</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780151009992/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>