Springfield, Illinois is an exciting place in 1856. A flourishing blacksmith is the victim of a murder and his wife and nephew are the suspects. Rumor has it that they have been involved in an affair and were caught in the victim’s home. Their murder case becomes even more exciting...

The movie titled, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” is characterized by peoples’ desire to be free and thrive against all odds. When the protagonist, Abe Lincoln, is first introduced, he is anguished because of the way in which his mother was killed by a vampire. As a young boy, there is...

President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (1861) and Second Inaugural Address (1865) examined the same issues but from two entirely different perspectives. The 1861 speech was intended to encourage the Southern states to remain in the Union rather than secede, so that civil war could be averted, while the 1865 speech...

Abraham Lincoln, born in 1809, would become a name marked in history books as the 16th president. He was born in “Hardin County, Kentucky, the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks” . As a child, Lincoln’s family “belonged to a Baptist denomination that broke from the parent church on...