Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill were firemen in a world which seemed to be burning all around them. “I expect to maintain this contest until successful or till I die, or am conquered, or…

Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was a principled realist. There is a pragmatism even to Lincoln’s selection of a wife. The future president’s ambition was reflected in his courtship. He was not satisfied to…

President Lincoln’s Moods Abraham Lincoln’s Personality Speaking at Cincinnati, Ohio in February 1860, President-elect Abraham Lincoln said: “I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind;…

Abraham Lincoln’s Office President Abraham Lincoln and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had unconventional working habits. Lincoln’s longtime friend, Joshua F. Speed recalled: “Mr Lincoln was so unlike all the men I had ever known before or seen or known since…

Abraham Lincoln and Public Opinion “There is no doubt about it at all; people regard him, one and all, as their PM, and I don’t believe there will ever be anyone quite like him,” Elizabeth Layton, one of Winston Churchill’s…

Abraham Lincoln and Technology Technology was a wartime boon and bane for Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Abraham Lincoln. “Crackpot inventors annoyed Lincoln regularly,” wrote historian Michael Burlingame. “One sought his assistance in persuading the War Department to use…

Abraham Lincoln and Soldiers and Sailors About 725,000 Americans, North and South, died in the Civil War. In World War II, about 726,000 military personnel from the United States (400,000) and the United Kingdom (326,000) were killed. By the end…

Abraham Lincoln and Music Most nights, President Abraham Lincoln worked “in his office, though occasionally he remained in the drawing room after dinner, conversing with visitors or listening to music, for which he had an especial liking, though he was…

Abraham Lincoln, Pets and Children Abraham Lincoln’s stepmother recalled that he was “lover animals” and generally “and treated them Kindly.”1 Boyhood friend Nathaniel Grigsby recalled that young Lincoln “would write short sentences against cruelty to animals. We were in the…

Abraham Lincoln’s Words For Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, words mattered. “Words are the only things that last for ever,” said Churchill in 1938. “The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of time.”1 Words endured.…