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In Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, historian Allen C. Guelzo argues that Lincoln's boyhood inculcation of Calvinism was the dominant thread running through his adult life. He characterizes Lincoln's worldview as a kind of "Calvinized deism." [69] A Bible that belonged to President Abraham Lincoln resurfaced 150 years after his death.
Abraham Lincoln – Christianity, no branch specified. Life before the presidency Some believe that for much of his life, Lincoln was a Deist. [64] Rev. Dr. Phineas D. Gurley, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian church in Washington D.C., which Lincoln attended with his wife when he attended any church, never claimed a conversion ...
In 1998, TNT aired The Day Lincoln Was Shot, with Lance Henriksen as Abraham Lincoln and Rob Morrow as John Wilkes Booth. The film is a remake of Ford Star Jubilee: The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1956). In 1998, Dann Florek played Lincoln in the short-lived comedy television series The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer
George Washington in 1772 by Charles Willson Peale. The religious views of George Washington have long been debated. While some of the other Founding Fathers of the United States, such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Henry, were noted for writing about religion, Washington rarely discussed his religious and philosophical views.
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter.In the painting, Carpenter depicts Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his Cabinet members reading over the Emancipation Proclamation, which proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states in rebellion against the Union in the American ...
The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic (Penn State Press, 2020) on the inaugural address. online; Bruggeman, Seth C. Here, George Washington was born: Memory, material culture, and the public history of a national monument (U of Georgia Press, 2011). Cavitch, Max.
Abraham Lincoln, an 1869 portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy Lincoln in February 1865, two months prior to his assassination. As a young man Lincoln was a religious skeptic. [349] He was deeply familiar with the Bible, quoting and praising it. [350] He was private about his position on organized religion and respected the beliefs of others ...