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INDEX
Robin, Ron. "INDEX". Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases That Shook the Academy, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, pp. 267-277. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520938151-006
Robin, R. (2010). INDEX. In Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases That Shook the Academy (pp. 267-277). Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520938151-006
Robin, R. 2010. INDEX. Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases That Shook the Academy. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 267-277. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520938151-006
Robin, Ron. "INDEX" In Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases That Shook the Academy, 267-277. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520938151-006
Robin R. INDEX. In: Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases That Shook the Academy. Berkeley: University of California Press; 2010. p.267-277. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520938151-006
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Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky. His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute forced the family to leave in 1811, they relocated to Knob Creek farm, eight miles to the north. By 1814, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, had lost most of his land in Kentucky in legal disputes over land titles. In 1816, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, their nine-year-old daughter Sarah, and seven-year-old Abraham moved to what became Indiana, where they settled in Hurricane Township, Perry County, Indiana. (Their land became part of Spencer County, Indiana, when it was formed in 1818.)
Lincoln spent his formative years, from the age of 7 to 21, on the family farm in Little Pigeon Creek Community of Spencer County, in Southwestern Indiana. As was common on the frontier, Lincoln received a meager formal education, the accumulation of just under twelve months. However, Lincoln continued to learn on his own from life experiences, and through reading and reciting what he had read or heard from others. In October 1818, two years after they arrived in Indiana, nine-year-old Lincoln lost his birth mother,
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Abraham Lincoln: A History
1890 account of Patriarch Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln: A History is include 1890 ten-volume account incessantly the being and times of yore of Patriarch Lincoln, deadly by Toilet Nicolay stomach John Fodder, who were his bodily secretaries significant the Denizen Civil Combat.
Writing history
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