Why Abraham Lincoln's life still matters...a brief trip through his political evolution rising from poverty in the midwest to his  Presidency and his impact on the outcome of the Civil War.

Show Notes:

Lincoln’s Ladder to the Presidency by Guy C Fraker

The Lincoln Miracle, Inside the Republican Convention that Changed History by Edward Achorn

The President’s War, The Six American Presidents, and the Civil War that Divided Them by Chris DeRose

Lincoln in Private by Ronald C White

Crooked Path to Abolition, Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution by James Oakes

Lincoln’s White House, the People’s House in Wartime by James B Conroy

Maryland Voices of the Civil War, Charles W Mitchell, ed.

Gathering to Save a Nation, Lincoln and the Union War Governors by Stephen Engle