On Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty, the son of a mother who would die before he turned 10 and an illiterate father from whom he would become estranged.
Despite Lincoln's starting out life under such foreboding circumstances, his country, 200 years later, is celebrating the man historians generally recognize as the greatest president in the U.S. history. The State Bar of Texas is joining in the Lincoln bicentennial festivities, preparing this special issue of the Texas Bar Journal; co-sponsoring a luncheon in Dallas on Lincoln’s birthday featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson[1] ; and lining up another Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, to speak at the State Bar Annual Meeting in Dallas on June 26.