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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.
Read below for the full text of Lincoln's address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ...
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 ...
Mearns, David Chambers (1947). The Story Up to Now: The Library of Congress, 1800–1946. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 947764033. Millington, Yale O. (1925). "A List of Newspapers Published in the District of Columbia 1820–1850". The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 19 (1/2): 43– 65.
Lincoln in this address coined the phrase that the United States is the "last best hope of Earth." This phrase has been echoed by many US presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt closed his 1939 State of the Union Address by quoting these words from Lincoln. [3] Lyndon B. Johnson quoted it in a special message to Congress on equal rights. [4]