Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865) was the sixteenth president of the
United States, guiding the nation through the Civil War before
becoming one of its final vicitims, assasinated at Ford's Theater
in Washington on April 15, 1865, less than a week after the
surrender of the Confederate army at Appomattox.
Don E. Fehrenbacher(1920-1997) was professor of history at Stanford
University. He was the author of several books, includingPrelude to
Greatness- Lincoln in the 1850's,The Dred Scott Case- Its
Significance in American Law and Politics, andLincoln in Text and
Context.
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