Becoming Lincoln

As the Whig Party withered away in 1855, Abraham Lincoln found himself pulled toward the new Republican Party -- an organization that not only stood foursquare against slavery's expansion, but brought an economic vision that reflected northern attitudes and explicitly rejected the Southern way of life. Sources used:Blumenthal, Sidney: All The Powers of Earth. Simon and Schuster, 2019.Burlingame, Michael, Abraham Lincoln: A Life. (Vol. 1). The John Hopkins University Press, 1995.Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. 1953 Edition hosted by the University of Michigan.Davis, Rodney and Wilson, Douglas, ed. Herndon on Lincoln: Letters. Knox College Lincoln Studies Center, 2016.Donald, David Herbert, Lincoln: A Biography. Simon and Schuster, 1995. Foner, Eric, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 1995.Foner, Eric, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. W.W. Norton and Company, 2011.Holt, Michael, The Rise and Fall of