Arlen siu biography of abraham lincoln
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Website provides 3-D images of treasures from Illinois history
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Crawl around under Abraham Lincoln’s desk. Spin the chair where Adlai Stevenson III sat in the U.S. Senate. Look down the barrel of Tad Lincoln’s model cannon. Thanks to new 3-D images from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, anyone anywhere in the world can explore treasures from Illinois history like never before.
The virtual gallery features about 100 artifacts that can be enlarged, turned upside down or spun around. Each comes with details about the item’s history and significance.
"Every museum visitor has seen some fascinating artifact they would like to pick up and examine more closely. These 3D images offer the next-best thing,” said Christina Shutt, executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. "They let all of us satisfy our curiosity by peering into the nooks and crannies of history.”
The images can be found at www.PresidentLincoln.Illinois.gov/3D.
The 3-D scanning was made possible by grant funds the ALPLM received as part of the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief. The U.S. Department of Education awarded grants to governors for the purpose of providing local educational agencies, institutions of higher education and other educati
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The Other Side of the Penny: Considering Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy
Upon signing the executive order for the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln remarked, “I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper… If my name ever goes into history it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.”
But Lincoln, unlike his copper-minted likeness, was not a one-sided figure. In the fervor to recognize Lincoln’s invaluable contributions to the abolition of slavery, his commitment to the rule of law and the constitutional limits on presidential power has been obscured. To fully understand Lincoln, one must consider not only his strong feelings about the evils of slavery but also the struggle he faced reconciling this conviction with his commitment to legal order and the limits of his office.
In his Lyceum Address(1838), a speech from early in his political career, Lincoln expressed his profound commitment to the importance of the rule of law. So deep was that commitment, he related, that even bad laws must be obeyed for the rule of law to be maintained. He remarked, “But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example,