Sentence:  Enthusiastically , Americans have swept subliterary and bogus materials like Paul Bunyan tales , <WSD>Abe</WSD> Lincoln anecdotes and labor union songs up as true products of our American oral tradition . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)