Lincoln and Douglas (Jan Jacobi - YA) pin Canadians have long taken pride

Canadians have long taken pride in being on the “good side” of the American Civil War

But Symonds also shows that Lincoln could act decisively

it also illuminates the culture of nineteenth-century Victorian America: a rigid society barely concealing the suppressed impulses and undercurrents that only grew stronger as the century progressed

was kidnapped by Captain Raphael Semmes of the Confederate raider Alabama on October 9

This warm and fuzzy

Lincoln and Douglas (Jan Jacobi - YA) pin Canadians have long taken prideby Jan Jacobi Abraham Lincoln saw himself as the tortoise in a hopeless race against Stephen Douglas, the charismatic hare. Lincoln was perpetually in Douglass shadow. Theyd been friends and colleagues since they first met in the Illinois legislature in 1835. Douglas became the boy wonder of American politics while Lincoln failed in his one term in the House of Representatives. In 1849, believing his political career to be over, Lincoln returned to