Thanks to Spoken Arts Records, history buffs may hear Lincoln's `` most memorable speeches and letters '' in a two-disc set, interpreted by Lincoln authority and lecturer Roy P. Basler.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

" For some time, Lincoln continued earlier plans to set up colonies for the newly freed slaves.

The committee for the November 19 Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg invited President Lincoln: " It is the desire that, after the Oration, you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks.

Lincoln's three-hour speech presented thorough moral, legal and economic arguments against slavery, and set the stage for Lincoln ’ s political future.

These speeches set the stage for the Lincoln-Douglas debates four years later, during which Lincoln was running for Douglas's senate seat.

The next effort by any government to set aside such protected lands was, again, in the United States, when President Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress on June 30, 1864, ceding the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias ( later becoming the Yosemite National Park ) to the state of California:

American civil religion, for example, might be said to have its own set of sacred " things ": the Flag of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., etc.

Also in 2011, branches of the IWW were set up in Lincoln, Manchester & Sheffield ( notably workers employed by Pizza Hut ).

When the challenge failed, the college had to become a segregated school, but it set aside funds to help establish the Lincoln Institute near Louisville to educate black students.

Although a Parliament was called for the new " King ", Lincoln had no intention of remaining in Dublin and instead packed up the army and Simnel and set sail for north Lancashire.

President Abraham Lincoln set up reconstructed governments in several southern states during the war, including Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

In order to make the Lincoln chapter house appear similar to the Westminster Chapter House, murals were painted on a special layer over the existing wall, and elsewhere polystyrene replicas of Sir Isaac Newton's tomb and other Abbey monuments were set up.

Sagadahoc County was initially part of York and, later, Lincoln County before being set off and incorporated in 1854.

Sagadahoc County was set off from Lincoln and incorporated in 1854, with Bath as the county seat.

The most startling plan, the government charged, was to set off five bombs in 10 minutes, blowing up the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and a federal building housing the FBI.

In 1905, the Lincoln section of Middlesex Borough organized a volunteer fire company and that set the organization of four other fire companies in the Borough.

The opposing Fellows, led by Edmunds, appealed to the first set of statutes, claiming the Crown as Visitor, making Gibson's decisions invalid ; Provost Carter, supported by Bishop Gibson, appealed to the second set, claiming the Bishop of Lincoln as Visitor.

" That same year, President Abraham Lincoln set the area aside as the Uintah Indian Reservation.

Running on a pledge to rid the area of rustlers, Garrett was elected as sheriff of Lincoln County in November 1880 ; in early December, he assembled a posse and set out to arrest McCarty, at that time known almost exclusively as " Billy the Kid.

Under Edward II the Chancellor dedicated set days to hearing pleas, as documented in the records of the Parliament of Lincoln in 1315, which also show that some cases were heard by his personal staff, the Chancery, and not by the Chancellor.

A number of Avro Lincoln bombers were also used as " set dressing.

In the late summer of 1989 the Classical Jazz series of concerts at New York's Lincoln Center celebrated Carter's 82nd birthday with a set of his songs, sung by Ernestine Anderson and Sylvia Syms.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

Enthusiastically, Americans have swept subliterary and bogus materials like Paul Bunyan tales, Abe Lincoln anecdotes and labor union songs up as true products of our American oral tradition.

They showed they were glad that Carnegie would have a major orchestra playing there so often next season to take up the slack with the departure to Lincoln Center of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.

Canoeing down the Sangamon River, Lincoln ended up in the village of New Salem in Sangamon County.

Shortly after Lee's surrender, a general had asked Lincoln how the defeated Confederates should be treated, and Lincoln replied, " Let ' em up easy.

A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

In 1917 Columbia established the Lincoln School of Teachers College “ as a laboratory for the working out of an elementary and secondary curriculum which shall eliminate obsolete material and endeavor to work up in usable form material adapted to the needs of modern living .” ( Cremin, 282 ) Based on Flexner ’ s demand that the modern curriculum “ include nothing for which an affirmative case can not be made out ” ( Cremin, 281 ) the new school organized its activities around four fundamental fields: science, industry, aesthetics and civics.

Cagney denied this, and Lincoln Steffens, husband of the letter's writer, backed up this denial, asserting that the accusation stemmed solely from Cagney's donation to striking cotton workers in the San Joaquin Valley.

Linnell and Flansburgh first met as teenagers growing up in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Lincoln put up with the annoyance rather than risk alienating some associate or friend of a powerful politician or opinion maker.

While the Pacific Railroad Act was to award the eastern contract to the newly formed Union Pacific, it was left up to then President Lincoln to formally choose the location for the railroad to start and Lincoln in 1862 was to follow the advice of his former client.

Lincoln asked Massachusetts Congressman Oakes Ames, who was on the railroad committee, to clean things up and get the railroad moving.

On the morning of Thursday, February 14, 1929, St. Valentine's Day, five members of the North Side Gang, plus gang collaborators Reinhardt H. Schwimmer and John May, were lined up against the rear inside wall of the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side, and executed.

A camera crew sets up for scenes to be filmed on the flight deck for the motion picture Stealth ( film ) | Stealth with the crew of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln ( CVN 72 ) | USS Abraham Lincoln ( CVN 72 ).

He grew up outside Detroit in the suburb of Lincoln Park, Michigan.

President Lincoln was the leader of the moderate Republicans and wanted to speed up Reconstruction and reunite the nation painlessly and quickly.

Historians debate if Lincoln gave up on African American colonization at the end of 1863 or if he actually planned to continue this policy up until 1865.

* 1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture.

* May 15 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the U. S. Bureau of Agriculture ( later renamed U. S. Department of Agriculture ).

Lincoln was assassinated before he could appoint a commissioner of the Bureau.

* North Platte Lincoln County Convention and Visitors Bureau

Lincoln successfully persuaded Congress to pass a special act legalizing Dahlgren's appointment to the yard, and, in July 1862, Dahlgren was promoted to the rank of captain and made chief of the Bureau of Ordnance.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village, founded by a French Canadian Roman Catholic priest ( that later converted to Protestantism ) and friend of Abraham Lincoln by the name of Charles Chiniquy, has a total area of, of which, of it is land and 1. 92 % is water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Lincoln Village has a total area of, all of it land.

* Lincoln City Visitor and Convention Bureau

There are other Civil War connections as well: Major General Oliver Otis Howard, class of 1850, led the Freedmen's Bureau after the war and later founded Howard University ; Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew, class of 1837, was responsible for the formation of the famous 54th Massachusetts ; and William P. Fessenden 1823 and Hugh McCulloch 1827 both served as Secretary of the Treasury during the Lincoln Administration.

Howard with a lecture and programs by the Oregon Civil War Sesquicentennial spotlighting General Howard's activities in Portland and at Fort Vancouver, Washington ; and his post war achievements at the Freedmen's Bureau, Howard University and Lincoln Memorial University and the Indian Wars.

* Federal Bureau of Investigation-American Nazi Party monograph, June 1965-Detailed report on George Lincoln Rockwell and the original American Nazi Party

The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War.

The Old Naval Observatory is now on the grounds of the United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, southwest of the corner of E and 23rd Streets in Foggy Bottom ( north of the Lincoln Memorial ).

The California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in accordance with the provisions of former California Education Code sections 94900 and / or 94915 approved Lincoln University to offer the Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) Degree, the Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration Degree, the Associate of Science in Diagnostic Imaging Degree, and Certificates in Medical Assisting, for Ultrasound Technicians and the Intensive English Program.

The Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire houses 15 Engine in the Lincoln – Lemington – Belmar section of the city.

Historical evidence suggests that the original intention of the Bureau of Indian Affairs was to have the Settlers defended from a location other than Camp Lincoln.