Tag: abraham lincoln
Exeter Town Hall Site of Lincoln’s 1860 Speech Photo Tour
I go up to New Hampshire every four years to observe the New Hampshire Primary first hand. In 2016 I went too the prep school…
Lincoln and the Effort to Send Freed Slaves to an Island Off of Haiti
The Washington Post has an article this weekend on a disturbing effort to transplant freed slaves to an island off of Haiti and Lincoln’s involvement….
Abe Lincoln and Frederick Douglass Statues Photo Tour National Harbor, Maryland
Last week I attended a conference at National Harbor in Maryland, just a few miles from Washington, D.C. It is a popular Holiday Season destination…
How the Civil War and Reconstruction Era Presidents Ranked According to Historians
The C-SPAN ranking of presidents by historians was released half-a-year ago, but it has been getting a lot of attention in the news lately. I…
Ted Widmer Gives Strong Recommendation of John Avlon’s New Lincoln and the Fight for Peace in WaPo
Ted Widmer, professor at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, has a review in The Washington Post of John Avlon’s new book…
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…
NY Times Reviews New Book John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by H. W. Brands
The New York Times Book Review reviews the new THE ZEALOT AND THE EMANCIPATOR John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by…
NY Times Interviews Edward Achorn, the Author of “Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.”
In his new book Every Drop of Blood Edward Achorn describes the 24 hours of Lincoln’s Second Inauguration. We all remember Lincoln address that day,…
Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Concise Lincoln Library) by Christian G. Samito
Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Concise Lincoln Library) by Christian G. Samito published by Southern Illinois University Press 188 pages (2015) Hardcover $24.93 Kindle $14.72. Lincoln…
Would Reconstruction Have Been Different if Lincoln Had Lived? Historians Weigh In
The scholarly journal Civil War History had a Historians Forum on Reconstruction in the September 2015 issue. I want to point to one of the…
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