{"id":671,"date":"2009-02-17T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/02\/17\/happy-presidents-day\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:37:15","slug":"happy-presidents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/02\/17\/happy-presidents-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy President&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln!<\/p>\n<p>February 12, 2009 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America.  This bicentennial observance is noted with the following new titles added to the Lincolniana already gracing Langsdale Library shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Contosta, D.R.  (2008).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Rebel giants: The revolutionary lives of Abraham Lincoln &amp; Charles Darwin<\/span>.  Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.  E 457.2 .C76 2008<\/p>\n<p>Ecelbarger, G.  (2008).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The great comeback: How Abraham Lincoln beat the odds to win the Republican nomination.  <\/span>New York: Thomas Dunne Books.  E 457.4 .E28 2008<\/p>\n<p>Epstein, D.M.  (2008).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Lincolns: Portrait of a marriage<\/span>.  New York: Ballantine Books.  E 457.25 .E67 2008<\/p>\n<p>Gates, H.L. &amp; Yacovone, D.  (Eds.).  (2009).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Lincoln on race and slavery.<\/span>     Princeton: Princeton University Press.  E 457.2 .L744 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/langsdale\/3285726803\/\" title=\"lincoln bookshelf by langsdalelibrary, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3478\/3285726803_b6a817de99.jpg\" alt=\"lincoln bookshelf\" height=\"448\" width=\"299\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guelzo, A.C.  (2008).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Lincoln and Douglas: The debates that defined America. <\/span>    New York: Simon &amp; Schuster.  E 457.4 .G84 2008<\/p>\n<p>Henderson, H.  (Ed.).  (2008).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Abraham Lincoln companion.<\/span>  Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics.  E 457.15 .A153 2008<\/p>\n<p>Holzer, H.  (Ed.).  2009.  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Lincoln anthology: Great writers on his life and legacy from 1860 to now<\/span>.  New York: Library of America.  E 457 .L56 2009<\/p>\n<p>Holzer, H. &amp; Shenk, J.W.  (Eds.).  (2009).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">In Lincoln&#8217;s hand: His original manuscripts. <\/span> New York: Bantam Dell.  E 457.92 2009<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan, F.  (2008). <span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Lincoln: The biography of a writer.<\/span>  New York: HarperCollins.  E 457.2  .K357 2008<\/p>\n<p>Kline, M.  (2008).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Baltimore plot: The first conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. <\/span> Yardley, PA: Westholme.  E 457.2 .K55 2008<\/p>\n<p>McGovern, G.  (2009). <span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Abraham Lincoln.<\/span>  New York: Times Books.  E 457 .M45 2009<\/p>\n<p>McPherson, J.M.  (2008).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tried by war: Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief.<\/span> E 457.2 .M478 2008<\/p>\n<p>McPherson, J.M.  (2009).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Abraham Lincoln<\/span>.  New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.  E 457 .M46 2009<\/p>\n<p>Miller, W.L.  (2008).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">President Lincoln: The duty of a statesman<\/span>.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf.  E 457.2 .M645 2008<\/p>\n<p>Morris, R.  (2008)  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The long pursuit: Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s thirty-year struggle with Stephen Douglas for the heart and soul of America. <\/span> Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books.  E 457.35 .M689 2008<\/p>\n<p>Paludan, P.S.  (Ed.).  (2008).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Lincoln&#8217;s legacy: Ethics and politics.<\/span>  Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.  E 457.2 .L842 2008<\/p>\n<p>Prokopowicz, G. J.  (2008).  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Did Lincoln own slaves?: And other frequently asked questions about Abraham Lincoln. <\/span> New York: Pantheon Books.  E457.909 .P76 2008<\/p>\n<p>Stauffer, J.  (2008). <span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Giants: The parallel lives of Frederick Douglass &amp; Abraham Lincoln<\/span>.  New York: Twelve.  E449. D75 S73 2008<\/p>\n<p>Wilentz, S.  (Ed.).  (2009)  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The best American history essays on Lincoln.  <\/span>New York: Palgrave Macmillan.  E 457.8 .B47 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln! February 12, 2009 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America. 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