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

It is a trek to make it to New Brunswick, Canada but worth the trip to visit the former cottage of the Roosevelts, where FDR spent his boyhood summers amongst the natives who taught him to navigate the treacherous waters of the Bay of Fundy and where he came down with a devastating and life changing case of Infantile Paralysis, otherwise known as Polio.

Show Notes:

Books:

Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President by Jonathan Darman.

There are many biographies of Roosevelt. But Geoffrey Ward perhaps writes the best books about FDR’s battle with polio.

See: https://www.americanheritage.com/fdrs-war-polio

Websites:

https://www.visitcampobello.com/

https://www.rooseveltcampobello.org/about-visitor-information

https://www.bayoffundy.com/communities/new-brunswick/campobello-island/

Historic Concord, Massachusetts made famous for the shots heard around the world, the outbreak of hostilities at the beginning the American Revolutionary War, is also famous as a center for the Transcendentalists,  a  mid 19th century group of philosophers and writers renowned for their belief in nature and man's relationship to the natural world.

For more information see:

Books

A Journey into the Transcendentalists New England by R. Todd Felton

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau; Their lives, Their loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever

See also: Individual works by these authors and  numerous articles and websites on the Internet that describe the work and beliefs of the Transcendentalists and the following websites for more information about places to visit in Concord:

https://visitconcord.org/listing-category/museums-historic-sites/

https://newengland.com/today/travel/massachusetts/concord/historic-concord-ma/