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Packet F: Bonus 8

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> | Packet-F_Brandeis-A_Florida-A_Maryland-A_Sheffield-A_WashU-B

HeardPPBE %M %H %
5213.27100%25%8%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
DukeWilliam & Mary010010E
UNC BLiberty A0101020EH
UNC CLiberty B010010E
UNC DLiberty C010010E
Virginia AWake Forest010010E
Virginia Tech ASouth Carolina010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
California2025-02-01✓320.00100%100%0%
Great Lakes2025-02-01✓512.00100%20%0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓611.67100%0%17%
Midwest2025-02-01✓616.67100%17%50%
North2025-02-01✓310.00100%0%0%
Overflow2025-02-01✓514.00100%40%0%
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01✓215.00100%50%0%
South Central2025-02-01✓215.00100%50%0%
Southeast2025-02-01✓412.50100%25%0%
UK2025-02-01✓510.00100%0%0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓813.75100%38%0%
Upstate NY2025-02-01✓310.00100%0%0%