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David Chambers Mearns (December 31, 1899 – May 21, 1981) was a librarian and scholar of Abraham Lincoln. He held multiple positions at the Library of Congress over 58 years of service, including director of the reference department, chief of the manuscript division, and Chair of American History.
In 2001, the Lincoln Legal Papers was expanded beyond Lincoln's legal practice and transformed into The Papers of Abraham Lincoln. The project is a department within the Research Division of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Beginning in 2003, teams of researchers visited private and public repositories around the U.S. and in ...
"The Once and Future Gettysburg Address," Long Remembered: Lincoln and His Five Versions of the Gettysburg Address, Commentary by Lloyd A. Dunlap, David C. Mearns, John R. Sellers, and Douglas L. Wilson (Library of Congress in Association with the Levenger Press, 2011), 87–94, 109–12.
This bibliography of Abraham Lincoln is a comprehensive list of written and published works about or by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.In terms of primary sources containing Lincoln's letters and writings, scholars rely on The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy Basler, and others. [1]
In the new documentary “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln,” director Shaun Peterson tackles decades’ worth of speculation about the sexual orientation of the towering 16th ...
Peterson first learned of Lincoln’s potential relationships with men after reading Gore Vidal’s 2005 Vanity Fair article on C.A. Tripp’s biography The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln ...
Further, the permission of Robert Lincoln, who controlled his father's papers, would have to be gained. Lincoln's former secretaries decided to wait until they had sufficient time and money. [2] The often-dormant proposal to write the biography was given new impetus as they came to believe Lincoln's historical image was being distorted.
William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818 – March 18, 1891) was an American lawyer and politician who was a law partner and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln.He was an early member of the new Republican Party and was elected mayor of Springfield, Illinois.