Abraham Lincoln

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Learning from Lincoln: Meeting Crisis with Action

  by William L. Barney

  The United States is at a crossroads. The path chosen will determine whether contemporary America resumes its role as a beacon of hope and progress to the rest of the world or joins the Confederate slaveholders of the past among history’s losers. 

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Lincoln, Cass, and Daniel Chester French: Homely Politicians Divided by Politics, United through Art

  by Harold Holzer

  In the age before the glare of television and instantaneous photography were relentlessly aimed at our leaders, politicians could succeed even if they looked like Lewis Cass. Or Abraham Lincoln.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  7/17/2020
  

  Abraham Lincoln, Tech Entrepreneur

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  The president who created the National Academy of Sciences in 1863, Abraham Lincoln, did more to advance the scientific revolution in American life than any chief executive of the 19th century.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/4/2020
  

  How a Lincoln-Douglass Debate Led to Historic Discovery

  Just like that, a document apparently unknown to Douglass’s biographers and not found in the orator’s papers at the Library of Congress had landed squarely in the middle of the debate that has swept the nation and the neighborhood around Lincoln Park where the statue stands.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/1/2020
  

  Boston To Remove Statue Depicting Abraham Lincoln With Freed Black Man At His Feet

  The statue should be moved into a museum, historian Ibrahim Sundiata says.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/30/2020
  

  Leave Lincoln Out of It

  Andrew Ferguson argues that the Lincoln Project's anti-Trump ads follow Abe Lincoln's lead in one respect: they echo the young Lincoln's talent for partisan attacks and inflammatory rhetoric. They inflame and agitate, but don't persuade. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/27/2020
  

  Activists Push for Removal of Statue of Freed Slave Kneeling Before Lincoln

  The Emancipation Memorial, intended to commemorate the end of slavery, has prompted a thorny debate over what the interaction between the two figures conveys.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/16/2020
  

  Sorry, Abe Lincoln Is Not on the Ballot

  Historian David W. Blight contextualizes the use of Lincoln, and other not-so-popular presidents, in modern political discourse.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/7/2020
  

  Trump Knows He’s No Lincoln. That’s Why He’s Obsessed With Him.

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  Trump, with his martyr envy, has felt a compulsion to diminish Lincoln whenever he raises his name.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  Yes, John Wilkes Booth did Speak Those Notorious Words At Lincoln's Last Speech

  by Ken Lawrence

  There is ample evidence Booth declared his intention--complete with racist invective-- to kill Lincoln after hearing the President state his willingness to make black Union soldiers citizens. The quote helps keep Booth's motives in focus for students of history.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  5/4/2020
  

  Presidential Historian Takes Apart Trump’s Claim He’s ‘Treated Worse’ Than Lincoln

  Doris Kearns Goodwin added some perspective to the president’s complaint.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Does Lincoln or Trump Represent the Conscience of the Republican Party?

  by Richard Striner

  The comparison between Lincoln’s Republican Party and today’s Republican Party is especially troubling.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  3/3/2020
  

  The 1619 Project’s outrageous, lying slander of Abe Lincoln

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  Humanities scholar Allen C. Guelzo defends Lincoln in the face of The 1619 Project's scrutiny.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/16/20
  

  Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.

  by Edward Achorn

  Abraham Lincoln repeatedly tops polls as our greatest and most revered president. But few people thought so on March 4, 1865, when he took the oath of office for the second time.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  12/9/19
  

  The Emergence of Abraham Lincoln

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  How America’s 16th president went from virtual obscurity to ending slavery.

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• 11/24/19
  

  Lincoln – not Pilgrims – responsible for Thanksgiving holiday

  by William C. Kashatus

  Since 1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  10/24/19
  

  Trump’s Increasingly Weird Attempts to Compare Himself to Lincoln

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  Time and again, Trump has compared himself favorably to the sixteenth President, boasting, for example, that his poll numbers are higher—although, of course, there were no polls in the nineteenth century.

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• 10/13/19
  

  What the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Can Teach Presidential Contenders

  by Georgiann Baldino

  The Lincoln-Douglas debates became pivotal moments in national politics, and their lessons are vital today.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/10/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln, Washington Nationals fan

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  The long history of baseball in D.C. after the Nationals clenchend a National League Conference Series appearance. 

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• 9/29/19
  

  What Abraham Lincoln Got Right About Addiction

  by Ed Simon

  This National Recovery Month, Ed Simon examines the history of addiction recovery movements.