Abraham Lincoln
This past week a letter surfaced written by William Herndon in 1866, which tells us nothing new about Abraham Lincoln’s faith. You can purchase it for $35,000. “Mr. Lincoln’s religion is too well known to me to allow of even a shadow of a doubt; he is or was a Theist & a Rationalist, denying [...]
Update: Here is a transcript of a debate between Harry V. Jaffa and Thomas DiLorenzo from 2002, which was sponsored by The Independent Institute. Brooks Simpson has also written up a thoughtful response to this post. I just finished watching Judge Napolotino’s interview with Thomas DiLorenzo and Thomas Woods on FOX News about the so-called [...]
Well, historian and Sons of Confederate Veterans member, Greg Clemmer thinks so. Clemmer is the author of Valor in Gray: The Recipients of the Confederate Medal of Honor, which was published back in 1997. Unfortunately, he is one of the few voices of reason within the SCV. Consider what he has to say about Lincoln’s [...]
Sometimes I wonder if people are aware that there is a historical profession that has been engaged over the past few decades in the critical analysis of every aspect of Abraham Lincoln’s life. Consider the following description of an upcoming BBC documentary on Lincoln: To most Americans Abraham Lincoln is the nation’s greatest president – [...]
The American Studies class that I team teach just finished reading William Gienapp’s concise biography of Abraham Lincoln. Of all the challenges that students coming to Lincoln struggle with is the issue of colonization. It’s not simply that Lincoln advocated colonization before the war it’s the extent to which he pushed for it during the [...]
I have no doubt that this just scratches the surface of a vibrant underworld of Civil War related titles that cater to those who are looking to reaffirm their belief that mainstream and academic historians have sold their souls to political correctness and every -ism in the book. Today I came across this little gem [...]
