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Hace 2 días · Abraham Lincoln led his country through a tumultuous period and played an instrumental role in abolishing slavery while preserving the Union as the 16th president of the United States.
- Leadership in War
He preferred to react to problems and to the circumstances...
- Reputation and Character
Abraham Lincoln - Reputation & Character, Cabinet: “Now he...
- Postwar Policy
Abraham Lincoln - Postwar Policy, Reconstruction,...
- Wartime Politics
Abraham Lincoln - Wartime Politics, the Union Cause, 1864...
- The Road to Presidency
Abraham Lincoln - Road to Presidency, Stephen A. Douglas,...
- Prairie Lawyer
The next year he moved to Springfield, Illinois, the new...
- Leadership in War
Hace 2 días · Jul 07, 2024. It is all but inevitable these days that when some supposedly right-wing politician mentions any unfavourable aspect of immigration, that he will promptly be dismissed as a “pound shop Enoch Powell.”. Twenty-five years after his death, and fifty-six years after he delivered the so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, Enoch ...
Hace 5 días · Questions of racial discrimination, housing, urban poverty, and the spectres of the social crisis were becoming increasingly entwined and in 1968 Shelter made another relatively rare public engagement with these issues, spurred by Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech, and the subsequent donations Shelter received with racist notes saying ‘for whites only’ (amongst other things).
Hace 4 días · At the White House, Sherman met with Abraham Lincoln a few days after his inauguration as president of the United States. Sherman expressed grave concerns about the North's poor state of preparedness for the looming civil war, but he found Lincoln unresponsive.
Hace 2 días · Abraham Lincoln (⫽ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən ⫽ LING-kən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
Hace 4 días · In Lincoln, Labour candidate Hamish Falconer beat Karl McCartney, winning almost double the number of votes that the now former MP gained.
Hace 2 días · He preferred to react to problems and to the circumstances that others had created rather than to originate policies and lay out long-range designs. In candor he would write, “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” His guiding rule was “My policy is to have no policy.”
