ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS 

Abraham Lincoln saved the Union and was the greatest president of all time. Thank you for this outstanding historically accurate documentary

We need another man like Abraham Lincoln to run our country

If people would read our documents the Declaration of Independence and bill of rights we would not be in the mess we are in now. Our documents must be taught in every grade in our schools so our young know it like the back of their hands.

His early life is so remarkable...from log cabin with a mud floor to the most powerful man in Western Hemisphere..truth is stranger than fiction

The relevance of Lincoln is so great it is difficult to measure.

These are such great videos - thank you. I believe that Lincoln was one of the greatest men who ever lived - from extremely humble beginnings to reach the highest position in the USA - such a remarkable story.

I came to the USA as a migrant and learned a lot about the history of this great nation. You came along way. Thank you Pr. Lincoln. Thank you to all the people who supported you in your extraordinary political journey for justice and equality. /////// Well that Douglass was something else. I have to look at those debates. ////// TEARS OF JOY, NOSTALGY AND SADNESS. I love split wood like Pr.Lincoln.//// Thank you again.

I so love learning about Lincoln, I consider him our greatest President.

All the relatives on my father's side of the family came from Illinois. My sister andI were born in Freeport where Lincoln and Douglas had a debate. We were taught to revere Lincoln and all he stood for. You will find signs on the highways pointing out where Lincoln traveled. My father would say "We are in Lincoln country." This was most important to my father as a Republican.

Wonderful presentation. Thank you. Well done Mr. Lincoln.

What a wonderful video! It was extremely informative and very entertaining! Bravo!!

LOVE HISTORY,,,THANK YOU!

What a powerful presentation. A true classic.

What an outstanding and informative production that gives valuable insights about the formative years and public policy grounding of one of the truly great Presidents in history. This documentary should be required viewing by students in all fields of study involving public policy. This documentary demonstrates that the true masters of public policy can use the bully pulpit with dignity, knowledge, and statesmanship to eloquently and persuasively advance a cause even in a nation divided.

Thank you for this perspective. Learning Lincoln during virus stay in place

Sarah Lincoln was very responsible for Abraham's success. What an interesting life.

I learned a lot about Lincoln and our country. Thank you!

Excellent!

Thank you for this great lesson on Honest Abe

Grew up in Illinois and did all my schooling there. Abraham Lincoln's presence is always felt.

The good die young, and the old have only memories. Abe Lincoln is now encased in Marble

My family knew Abraham Lincoln and helped start the Republican party. Francis A. Hoffman was on the same ticket. Francis ran for Lieutenants Governor of Illinois and Lincoln ran for President.

Inclusion of salient detail is both interesting and informative. Excellent production - very thoughtful treatment of subject matter.

Thanks for making and sharing this its great

Thank you very much. It is very important to uphold the constitution for our future generation

This is a very instructive video indeed. Among many other things one wonders how the history of the world might be different today if Lincoln were not elected President at that particular time in History. Secession would come and we can only conclude the US would have been divided( at least for a long period time until perhaps another bloody civil war erupted at immense costs). The two parts of the former USA would not be as strong as the united USA came to be, and this obviously would mean that Germany would have prevailed in an essentially European conflict, which would certainly come, probably in the early 1900s if not earlier still. All this changed because Lincoln almost by miracle was not only elected in 1861, but managed reelection in 1864, when the loss would probably represent the recognition of the CSA, slavery, etc. The CSA would probably be managed like an English-speaking Argentina, with little investiment ih Industry and Technology, and would never become a world power. How different the 20th century would be without Lincoln.

...Abraham Lincoln is one solid proof of Gods existence....

My three greatest world leaders..1 Abraham Lincoln. 2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt .3 Winston Churchill..

I passed through his ancestral home in England a couple of months back.

Mr. Lincoln was quite popular in Northeast Tennessee during the late war.

Imagine if we had leaders like Lincoln today instead of what we are cursed with.

Well done documentary and factual.

Thank you for share awesome

Was there with kids the day this footage was filmed, so cool to come across this

This is good Stuff! Quality Content! Thank you!

thanks

I grew up and still live in Metamora!!!

Very informative

I heartily recommend the book "The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln" by CA Tripp. Very very interesting.

Abraham Lincoln the greatest American that ever lived. America please wake up and do the right...

John Hanks, who was a first cousin to Lincoln’s mother, and was first cousin once removed to Abraham Lincoln was my 5th Great Uncle through my mother. John Hanks’ youngest brother Andrew Jackson Hanks (1815-1889) was my 4th Great-Grandfather. They were neighbors to Lincoln in Macon County in 1830. You mentioned John Hanks in this video, sailing on the flatboat to New Orleans (although it has been said John Hanks got off the boat at St Louis.)

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Judging by this video you'd think Stephen Douglas was a member of the *Wig* Party.

Awesome

Perhaps a younger actor playing the role of Lincolns early years would have been advised.

Great history

im in this im the kid in the red hat at 10:35

Why didnt they mention he practiced law in Beardstown, Cass County, Il before the county seat was moved to Virginia, Il?

Chicago, Illinois

Sadly In The Current Shallow, Frivolous, Culture Of U.S. Electoral Politics A Man Or Woman Of Abe's Intellectual Depth And Personal Character Would Be Laughed At And Dismissed By A Fickle Electorate, When At A Time We Need Someone Like To Emerge- So Desperately!

Anomaly at 48:38 - When the Compromise of 1850 was being worked out, Daniel Webster wasn't a Massachusetts Senator, he was Pres. Fillmore's Secretary of State.

Ann was a teen....not an older woman

Go there and you will see it in Springfield. All of. Abraham Lincoln sites

I know moor about Lincoln than most people Lincoln suffered from war at the end of his life slavery was a sin of the people not accepted by Lincoln . his wife was a crippling stampeded of money that took him to being broke .his love for his sons broke his heart and very little sleep . if people only new the truth how this man suffered the life he had from child hood with a father who said hate to his son a mother who died who loved her children a new mom who gave him a better life because of her faith .Rev Mike Church of the light

We all have equal dignity but we were not created equal. Ex. Talents, health, size etc

Many men from Illinois fought for the Confederacy.

What if Lincoln had no interest of slave issue Or slave issue was main national debate

Why does Abe’s voice actor sound like a more rural version of George HW Bush

The late President Abe Lincoln said all men are equil. He meant man and female according the Bible, GODS WORD. He was a true Christian believer in the LORD JESUS CHRIST. GOD ALMIGTHY IS THE CREATOR🙏

The reanactment of Douglas rally in the Capitol looks like a 19th century Trump Rally!

Molly 's goal was to marry a president. Imagine if she married Stephen A instead.

Funny that Lincoln focused on “all men are created equal” concerning slavery (black men) but no mention of women being equal. What were Lincoln’s thoughts or feelings on women being equal? Or did he take the Declaration of Independence’s word “Men” in that document, literally? 🤔

Do you think Mary was wrongfully committed to an asylum?

Lincoln’s ambition was to colonize blacks out of the country. His strategy involved persuading some prominent blacks in the North to self-deport in hopes that all Lincoln began to consider emancipation as a “war measure,” it was always linked to colonization. This was the plan right up until September 1862. Then he issued emancipation in 1863 without mention of colonization, at least in the Proclamation’s final draft. Colonization seemed to drop as a priority. It appeared to disappear from his agenda the remainder of his life. This, coupled with Lincoln’s willingness to allow limited black suffrage in 1865, provided the opportunity for the purveyors of the righteous cause myth to claim the sudden evolution of Lincoln from a segregationist racist to a champion of black civil rights. Two theories emerged to explain this evolution. The “lullaby” theory claims Lincoln never actually believed in colonization, but rather used it as a means to pacify the public who he knew did not want to live with emancipated blacks. This bought him time to prep the public for his egalitarian racial dream. James McPherson is a proponent of this theory. The second theory is the “change of heart” theory. Lincoln is believed to have undergone a moral awakening and now accepted a multiracial America. Eric Foner is an adherent of this theory.. There were, however, some historical challenges to the notion that Lincoln miraculously evolved. His Sec. of the Navy Gideon Welles stated in 1877 that Lincoln “by no means abandoned his policy of deportation and emancipation, for the two were in his mind indispensably and indissolubly connected.” (Administration of Abraham Lincoln, Galaxy no. 4, p. 439). Henry Clay Whitney, a close Illinois acquaintance of the president wrote in 1892, “Lincoln was a colonizationist... and would have made still more heroic efforts, looking to that end, had he completed his second term.” (Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 4). Perhaps the most challenging to those who need to believe in Lincoln’s egalitarianism was an interview with Lincoln by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler in April 1865. According to Butler, Lincoln approached him asking “what shall we do with the negroes after they are free... I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we get rid of the negroes... I believe it would be better to export them ALL to some fertile country... “ (Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, 1892, p. 903). Butler suggested to Lincoln the sending of the USCT to Panama to dig the canal, and then send for their wives and families in hopes the rest of the black population would follow. To this idea Lincoln replied, “There is meat in that, General Butler, there is meat in that.” Much was done by historians, who promote the popular narrative, to discredit these historical challengers. Butler was dismissed as one known to favor embellishment. After all, Lincoln was silent on colonization after 1862. So how could it possibly be he hadn’t changed? Especially when the popular narrative needed a redeemed Lincoln to promote the righteous cause myth. And his silence on the subject from 1862 to his death was all the evidence that was needed. Everything was good for the proponents of Lincoln’s evolution up until 2011. Then it all came crashing down with the accidental discovery of documents in foreign archives. This led to a collaborative research by Dr. Phillip Magness, Professor of Political History at George Mason University, and Dr. Sebastian Page, research fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford. The result was their book Colonization After Emancipation. In it you find, “A secession of document discoveries in the British and American National Archives revealed that the 1863 meeting (June 13, 1863 between British agents and Lincoln) was part of a much larger colonization project, unknown to this day, wherein the American and British governments sought to populate the West Indies with ex-slaves from the United States. Equally startling, this project occurred in the latter years of Lincoln’s presidency when it is commonly believed that he moved away from colonization in favor of his better-known policies to secure the rights and futures of the freedmen in the United States.” (Colonization After Emancipation, pp vii - viii). The authors conclude, “The prospect that the ‘Great Emancipator’ subscribed to colonizationist beliefs, particularly at the end of his life, seems to completely dispel his popular reputation as a racial egalitarian.” (P. 125) That loud boom you hear is Eric Foner, David Blight, and James McPherson’s heads exploding.

The Red Guard destroying thousands of Chinese history and the Marxist brainwashed youth of today tearing down a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Portland today... They target the youth to be their minions because they haven't taught history for years and they have no memory.

Needs to talk about the Illinois antebellum Black Codes he supported and the Corwin Amendment he wrote. He was merely the pupett of Edwin Stanton and Samuel Barlow, their front man.

President Trump is the only one that's coming the closest to Lincoln

Omg...the democrats chants are the same today as 200 yrs ago. They haven't moved forward at all..ha.

Excellent!