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Venture into the life of Abraham Lincoln, hailed as the greatest of practical mystics, whose legacy remains relevant today as we face new forms of tyranny and enslavement. In Lincolns era, he fought for the freedom of black slaves in America; today, we continue his fight for freedom in a world threatened by the specter of oppression. Witness history repeating itself, with the world groaning under the weight of despotism striving for absolute power. As we confront these challenges, the values that Lincoln upheld during the tumultuous Civil War era are a beacon for us in the modern world. The ...

Francis Grierson's, The Valley of Shadows, is truly a lost American classic. Written at the dawn of the twentieth century, the author has remarkably captured his adventures and observations as a child growing up on the prairies of Illinois in the years leading up the Civil War, in a region that was neither North nor South; neither for slavery nor against it; and how their small family farm became an unscheduled stop on the Underground Railroad.