Selasa, 13 Desember 2016

Casting a Wide Net for Lincoln’s Legacy: Conversation with Daniel Stowell

Today’s presidents begin planning their libraries even before they leave office, but in Abraham Lincoln’s day such libraries did not exist, nor was there any formal procedure for collecting presidential documents. The Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project, led by director Daniel Stowell, is making up for that by canvassing the country for documents written to, …

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