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20 matches to Lincoln
Bacon, Henry. 1866-1924. US classical revival architect. Lincoln Memorial 1911.
Booth, John Wilkes. 1838-65. US actor. Shot Lincoln, 1865.
Douglas, Stephen. 1813-61. US politician. Compromise of 1850. Popular Sovereignty. Lost presidential campaign to Lincoln.
Drinkwater, John. 1882-1937. English dramatist: Abraham Lincoln 1918.
Ellsworth, Lincoln. 1880-1951. US explorer. First flight across Arctic 1926, Antarctica 1935.
Emancipation Proclamation. 1863. Lincoln frees all slaves in Confederacy.
French, Daniel. 1850-1931. US sculptor. Lincoln’s Memorial 1922. Minuteman 1875.
Gettysburg. 1863. Lincoln’s address given to dedicate Civil War cemetery. “Four score and seven years ago...Government of the people, by the people, for the people”.
Inns of Court. British apprenticeship and appointment of barristers. Temple, Lincoln 13C. Gray’s 1295. Inner 1326. Middle 1404. 1443-1876 Serjeant’s.
Lincoln, Abraham. 1809-65. US Republican president 1861-. Civil War. Gettysburg. Emancipation Proclamation. Assassinated. Booth.
Lincoln, Battle. 1217. Henry III defeats nobles supporting Louis VIII of France.
Lincolnshire Insurection. 1536. Against taxes, Dissolution of Monasteries.
Nobile, Umberto. 1885-1978. Italian general, flew over South Pole in a dirigible, 1926, with Amundsen, Ellsworth.
Pilgrimage of Grace. 1536. Catholic uprising in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire against dissolution of monasteries, taxation and inflation.
Pinkerton, Allan. 1819-84. Scottish/US founder first US detective agency 1850. Foiled plot vs Lincoln 1861.
Republican Party. 1792 Jefferson’s agrarian party. 1820 Whigs. 1854. Anti-slavery party. Lincoln. = Grand Old Party. vs Democratic Party.
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus. 1848-1907. US sculptor. Farragut. Abraham Lincoln (Chicago).
Steffens, Lincoln. 1866-1936. US Muckraker.
Tarbell, Ida. 1857-1944. US Muckraker writer. Life of Abraham Lincoln 1900.
Wade-Davis Bill. 1864. Strict terms for US Reconstruction vetoed by Lincoln.