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Virginia Anti-CRT Bill Invents Debate Between Lincoln and (Frederick) Douglass!

We all know about the WAR ON CRT being waged by Fox News and its courageous champions in legislatures throughout certain parts of the USA….

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The Feldman Thesis “Lincoln Broke the Constitution” and Its Critics

Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman has a new book out The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America that is attracting attention…

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Confederate General E.P. Alexander in Washington After the Lincoln Assassination April 1865

Most Confederates paroled at Appomattox headed south towards their homes within a day or two after Lee’s surrender. A surprising number headed north. One northbound…

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David Reynolds Wins Lincoln Prize for Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times

From the sponsors of the Lincoln Prize: Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has named David S. Reynolds, author of Abe: Abraham Lincoln…

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NY Times Reviews New Michael Burlingame Book on the Lincoln Marriage

Abe Lincoln and Mary Todd were the sort of power couple we now recognize in FDR and Eleanor or Bill and Hil. No major biography…

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Historians Eric Foner and James Oakes Talk About Lincoln & The Anti-Slavery Constitution

Professor James Oakes of the City University of New York has a conversation with Eric Foner about Abraham Lincoln and the anti-slavery Constitution. Both are…

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Heather Cox Richardson on the Republican Party in the Civil War & Reconstruction Era

Heather Cox Richardson did a gajillion-part series on the history of the Republican Party on Facebook Live over the summer. The first five hours cover…

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New Curriculum Available on “Lincoln and the Jews”

The Shapell Foundation was the force behind a Civil War Sesquicentennial exhibition at the New York Historical Society on Lincoln’s interactions with the emerging Jewish…

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Ted Widmer on How Lincoln Survived the Worst Election Ever

Professor Ted Widmer, author of Lincoln on the Verge, has a piece in the New York Times today on Lincoln and the Election of 1860….

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NY Times Reviews ABE: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds

This has been a good month for Abraham Lincoln with two new BIG books out on our most fascinating president. ABE: Abraham Lincoln in His…

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