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The Lincoln Memorial: The History and Legacy of Washington D.C.’s Famous Monument by Charles River Editors is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lincoln Memorial: The History and Legacy of Washington D.C.’s Famous Monument about?
\*Includes pictures \*Includes accounts of the memorial's construction by people who worked on it \*Explains how the memorial's site was chosen and how it was built \*Includes a table of contents “IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ENSHRINED FOREVER” – The epitaph by Royal Cortissoz engraved in the Lincoln Memorial People have always loved symbols and monuments. Even before there was any sort of written language, there were places and things considered sacred, whether it was the Mesopotamians’ ziggurats or the Egyptians’ pyramids. Thus, it had long been a practice to make some sort of memorial to those who had died as a way to remember and honor them. Abraham Lincoln is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn’t live to witness his crowning achievement, becomin
Who reads The Lincoln Memorial: The History and Legacy of Washington D.C.’s Famous Monument?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Charles River Editors
- Publisher
- Charles River Editors
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction