A History of Lincoln's Alma Mater
by
Joseph M. Di Cola
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In 1829, eleven years after Illinois became the twenty-first state, New Salem was founded on a bluff above the Sangamon River. The village provided an essential sanctuary for a friendless, penniless boy named Abraham Lincoln, whose six years there shaped his education and nurtured his ambition. Eclipsed...