Sentences with phrase «great emancipator»

The Great Emancipator is credited with freeing the slaves, saving the Union and setting the stage for Reconstruction.

«The Lincoln Laws: Should we thank the Great Emancipator for codifying the law of war — or curse him?»

The rosy picture of the heroic Great Emancipator is probably not the full story, as high school social studies teacher (and rising YouTube star) Keith Hughes of HipHughes History explains in this excerpt.

Lincoln has two modes: the Great Emancipator as orator; and good ol' Abe as folksy Mark Twain storyteller.

Steven Spielberg has been trying to set up a movie based on the political career of The Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln, for quite a while now, but ran into some complications earlier this year when Liam Neeson, who had been signed on for the lead role, dropped out of the project.

Over a decade in the making, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is a meticulous, accomplished dramatization of the Great Emancipator's push to enact the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution before the end of the Civil War.

In fact, Lincoln seems to suggest that the Great Emancipator would have relished in these times.

In a far less villainous vein, Charles Middleton was cast as Tom Lincoln, father of the 16th president, in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); he also portrayed the Great Emancipator himself on several occasions — while in 1937's Stand - In, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie role.

Our identification of Lincoln as the «Great Emancipator» tends to erase memories of Lincoln's prewar positions on these points: He accepted them all.

I find that my own students are more than merely surprised to learn about the views of the author of the Declaration of Independence as well as the Great Emancipator.

When Abe Lincoln first ran for public office in Illinois, surely it was not with the ambition of being the Great Emancipator.