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*February 13, 2025: Updated And Upgraded: Updated With ABRAHAM LINCOLN; A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM, And Upgraded From A Standard Format DVD To An Archival Quality Dual Layer Format DVD!
Contents:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WITH JAMES McPHERSON (Color, 1990, 23 Minutes)
The great Civil War historian James McPherson gives us the benefit of his wisdom as he guides us through the life America's 16th President.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN; A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM (Color, 1992, 58 Minutes)
The life story of Abraham Lincoln, narrated by Andrew Young, with Peter Coyote as the voice of Lincoln, Louis Gossett Jr. as Frederick Douglass, and commentary by Mario Cuomo, Ted Koppel, Jack Kemp, James MacPherson, Jean Baker, Charles Strozier, John Lewis, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Mary Frances Berry, Harold Holzer, Leon Litwack and more.
Abraham Lincoln, American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th U.S. President (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was born in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War, its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, paved the way for the abolition of slavery, strengthened the federal government, modernized the economy and established the Thanksgiving holiday. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for eight years. Elected to the United States House Of Representatives in 1846, Lincoln promoted rapid modernization of the economy and opposed the Mexican-American War. After a single term, he returned to Illinois and resumed his successful law practice. Reentering politics in 1854, he became a leader in building the new Republican Party, which had a statewide majority in Illinois. As part of the 1858 campaign for US Senator from Illinois, Lincoln took part in a series of highly publicized debates with his opponent and rival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas; Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, but lost the race to Douglas. In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state, though most delegates originally favored other candidates. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. Though there were attempts to bridge the differences between North and South, ultimately Lincoln's victory prompted seven southern slave states to secede from the United States and form the Confederate States of America before he moved into the White House. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter inspired the North to rally behind the Union. His Gettysburg Address became an iconic endorsement of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. He suspended habeas corpus, leading to the controversial ex parte Merryman decision, and he averted potential British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair. Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of generals, including his most successful general, Ulysses S. Grant. He made major decisions on Union war strategy, including a naval blockade that shut down the South's trade. As the war progressed, his complex moves toward ending slavery included the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; Lincoln used the U.S. Army to protect escaped slaves, encouraged the border states to outlaw slavery, and pushed through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which permanently outlawed slavery. An astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, Lincoln reached out to the War Democrats and managed his own re-election campaign in the 1864 presidential election. Anticipating the war's conclusion, Lincoln pushed a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness. On April 14, 1865, five days after the surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was shot in the evening by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. and died at 7:22 a.m the following morning. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln' death. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died in the Petersen House opposite the theater. He was the first American president to be assassinated; his funeral and burial marked an extended period of national mourning. Occurring near the end of the American Civil War, the assassination was part of a larger conspiracy which included Lewis Powell, David E. Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Mary E. Surratt, John Surratt, Edman Spangler, Samuel Arnold and George A. Atzerodt, and was intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government. Conspirators Lewis Powell and David Herold were assigned to kill Secretary Of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President Andrew Johnson. Beyond Lincoln's death the plot failed: Seward was only wounded and Johnson's would-be attacker lost his nerve. After a dramatic initial escape, Booth was killed at the climax of a 12-day manhunt, and several other conspirators were later hanged. Lincoln 's death triggered a funeral extravaganza, one the country had never seen before. After a service and procession down Pennsylvania Avenue, Lincoln's embalmed body, along with that of his son Willie (disinterred from a Washington., D.C. cemetery) was placed aboard a Funeral Train for the trip home to Springfield, Illinois. Sixteen days later, with arrival in Springfield, the odyssey came to an end. At Oak Ridge Cemetery, the remains of Willie and the President were placed in a temporary vault. His son Eddie was disinterred later from nearby Hutchinson's Cemetery and also placed in the temporary chamber. The final resting place of Abraham Lincoln is The Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery; his wife Mary Todd Lincoln; and three of their four sons -- Edward, William, and Thomas -- are all interred there. There are numerous memorials, namesake places, portraits on money, and artifacts of President Lincoln. On February 12, 1914, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial was put into place. The family tree has gone extinct; the last heir, his great-grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died on Christmas Eve in 1985. Any direct descendant could have inherited Beckwith's fortune, estimated at 3M USD. It has since been given to charity. Lincoln has been consistently ranked both by scholars and the public as among the greatest U.S. presidents.
The Life And Times Of Abraham Lincoln, American Lawyer, Politician And President Of The United States Throughout The American Civil War, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD!
*February 13, 2025: Updated And Upgraded: Updated With ABRAHAM LINCOLN; A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM, And Upgraded From A Standard Format DVD To An Archival Quality Dual Layer Format DVD!
Contents:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WITH JAMES McPHERSON (Color, 1990, 23 Minutes)
The great Civil War historian James McPherson gives us the benefit of his wisdom as he guides us through the life America's 16th President.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN; A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM (Color, 1992, 58 Minutes)
The life story of Abraham Lincoln, narrated by Andrew Young, with Peter Coyote as the voice of Lincoln, Louis Gossett Jr. as Frederick Douglass, and commentary by Mario Cuomo, Ted Koppel, Jack Kemp, James MacPherson, Jean Baker, Charles Strozier, John Lewis, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Mary Frances Berry, Harold Holzer, Leon Litwack and more.
Abraham Lincoln, American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th U.S. President (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was born in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War, its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, paved the way for the abolition of slavery, strengthened the federal government, modernized the economy and established the Thanksgiving holiday. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for eight years. Elected to the United States House Of Representatives in 1846, Lincoln promoted rapid modernization of the economy and opposed the Mexican-American War. After a single term, he returned to Illinois and resumed his successful law practice. Reentering politics in 1854, he became a leader in building the new Republican Party, which had a statewide majority in Illinois. As part of the 1858 campaign for US Senator from Illinois, Lincoln took part in a series of highly publicized debates with his opponent and rival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas; Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, but lost the race to Douglas. In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state, though most delegates originally favored other candidates. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. Though there were attempts to bridge the differences between North and South, ultimately Lincoln's victory prompted seven southern slave states to secede from the United States and form the Confederate States of America before he moved into the White House. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter inspired the North to rally behind the Union. His Gettysburg Address became an iconic endorsement of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. He suspended habeas corpus, leading to the controversial ex parte Merryman decision, and he averted potential British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair. Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of generals, including his most successful general, Ulysses S. Grant. He made major decisions on Union war strategy, including a naval blockade that shut down the South's trade. As the war progressed, his complex moves toward ending slavery included the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; Lincoln used the U.S. Army to protect escaped slaves, encouraged the border states to outlaw slavery, and pushed through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which permanently outlawed slavery. An astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, Lincoln reached out to the War Democrats and managed his own re-election campaign in the 1864 presidential election. Anticipating the war's conclusion, Lincoln pushed a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness. On April 14, 1865, five days after the surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was shot in the evening by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. and died at 7:22 a.m the following morning. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln' death. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died in the Petersen House opposite the theater. He was the first American president to be assassinated; his funeral and burial marked an extended period of national mourning. Occurring near the end of the American Civil War, the assassination was part of a larger conspiracy which included Lewis Powell, David E. Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Mary E. Surratt, John Surratt, Edman Spangler, Samuel Arnold and George A. Atzerodt, and was intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government. Conspirators Lewis Powell and David Herold were assigned to kill Secretary Of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President Andrew Johnson. Beyond Lincoln's death the plot failed: Seward was only wounded and Johnson's would-be attacker lost his nerve. After a dramatic initial escape, Booth was killed at the climax of a 12-day manhunt, and several other conspirators were later hanged. Lincoln 's death triggered a funeral extravaganza, one the country had never seen before. After a service and procession down Pennsylvania Avenue, Lincoln's embalmed body, along with that of his son Willie (disinterred from a Washington., D.C. cemetery) was placed aboard a Funeral Train for the trip home to Springfield, Illinois. Sixteen days later, with arrival in Springfield, the odyssey came to an end. At Oak Ridge Cemetery, the remains of Willie and the President were placed in a temporary vault. His son Eddie was disinterred later from nearby Hutchinson's Cemetery and also placed in the temporary chamber. The final resting place of Abraham Lincoln is The Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery; his wife Mary Todd Lincoln; and three of their four sons -- Edward, William, and Thomas -- are all interred there. There are numerous memorials, namesake places, portraits on money, and artifacts of President Lincoln. On February 12, 1914, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial was put into place. The family tree has gone extinct; the last heir, his great-grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died on Christmas Eve in 1985. Any direct descendant could have inherited Beckwith's fortune, estimated at 3M USD. It has since been given to charity. Lincoln has been consistently ranked both by scholars and the public as among the greatest U.S. presidents.