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Abraham Lincoln Articles Film Clips
Myths About Lincoln (The Literary Digest, 1929)
Myths After Lincoln by Lloyd Lewis is a book that documented many of the assorted tall tales that have, through the years, evolved in such a way as to have us all believe that Lincoln was a mystic who was blessed with dreams of foreboding. The myth of Lincoln's funeral train appearing as an apparition once a year is discussed, as are the legends that John Wilkes Boothe, like Elvis, survived the Virginia barn fire, where he is believed to have died and escaped into the Western territories.
Click here to read about a dream that President Lincoln had, a dream that anticipated his violent death.
| Lincoln's Aged Face (Coronet Magazine, 1945)
As the collected photographic portraits of Abraham Lincoln clearly indicate, no one will be naming a skincare product after him any time soon, however, the aging process that effected his face so dramatically has been the subject of Lincoln admirer's through the years, and some are collected herein:
"Lincoln liked to quote the ditty:
'Mortal man, with face of clay,
Here tom-morrow, gone today'"
"Was he the mortal man with face of clay? If so, he possessed the eloquent, the most sensitive, the most expressive face in the world."
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