Question
This historian won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History for the second part of a biography divided into The Prairie Years and The War Years. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this historian and poet who wrote the six-volume biography Abraham Lincoln. Those books by this historian inspired Robert Sherwood’s play Abe Lincoln in Illinois.
ANSWER: Carl Sandburg [or Carl August Sandburg]
[10e] Sandburg devoted much of The War Years to the congressional plot against this Secretary of State under Lincoln, whose work to purchase Alaska was called his “Folly.”
ANSWER: William Seward [or William Henry Seward]
[10h] In an Atlantic review, Stephen Vincent Benét cited this politician as one of many “Congressmen, cranks, [and] soldiers” whom Sandburg depicted. The Birchard Letter addressed this politician’s arrest for violating General Order 38.
ANSWER: Clement Vallandigham (“vuh-LAN-dig-um”) [or Clement Laird Vallandigham]
<NS, American History>
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 0% | 17% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 17% | 50% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Missouri S&T | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana B | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WashU A | Illinois C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Missouri | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |