Showing posts with label Abraham Lincoln. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abraham Lincoln. Show all posts
Saturday, February 12, 2022

Abraham Lincoln's Birthday

›
Our greatest president was born today, February 12, 1809, in LaRue County, Kentucky, literally in a log cabin. Historian Michael Beschloss r...
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Fergus M. Bordewich, Congress at War

›
At Amazon, Fergus M. Bordewich, Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade Am...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

James Oakes, The Crooked Path to Abolition

›
 At Amazon, James Oakes, The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution .
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Six Encounters with Lincoln

›
I've been talking up President Lincoln for the last three weeks (in my American government classes). This book looks great. At Amazo...
Friday, February 17, 2017

James M. McPherson, Tried by War

›
*BUMPED.* It's President's Day Weekend coming up, a three-day holiday weekend --- which is cool. I'll have some President...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Abraham Lincoln's Birthday

›
I love President Lincoln. He's my favorite president. I just wish I could transport back in time and meet him. He was born 208 years a...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Lincoln's Birthday

›
Abraham Lincoln's birthday was February 12, 1809. Today would be his holiday. George Washington's birthday was February 22, 1732. Ne...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

What Did Abraham Lincoln Really Think of Thomas Jefferson?

›
Allen Guelzo's a major scholar of the Civil War era, writing opus-style histories such as Gettysburg: The Last Invasion , and not to men...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

›
See John Steele Gordon, at Commentary, " Lincoln’s Second Inaugural ." From the speech: One-eighth of the whole population wer...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

How the Civil War Created Thanksgiving

›
From Kenneth Davis, at the New York Times . Also, from President Abraham Lincoln, at Real Clear History, " A Wartime Proclamation of ...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

The Republican Party Remains the Natural Repository of the Values Espoused by Abraham Lincoln

›
From Richard Brookhiser, at the Wall Street Journal, " Freedom, Hard Work and the Party of Lincoln ": Every February, local Republ...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Daniel Day-Lewis Wins Best Actor for 'Lincoln'

›
Well, I would've been a little disappointed if he didn't win. The Los Angeles Times reports, " It was Daniel Day-Lewis by a l...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Abraham Lincoln Was Gay?

›
When school started a couple of weeks back, I mentioned to my classes that research shows that college students have little historical groun...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Ruth Wisse on the Future of Conservatism

›
See, " What Is the Future of Conservatism? ": I take this presidential election as a call for university reform as well as tax r...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Lincoln's Language and its Legacy

›
A lengthy review article from Adam Gopnik, at the New Yorker, " ANNALS OF BIOGRAPHY: ANGELS AND AGES ": The tendency to obsess o...
Monday, October 15, 2012

How Lincoln Emerged in the Stratosphere of Greatness

›
From Conrad Black, at the New York Sun, " As Daniel Day Lewis’ Portrayal of the 16th President Is About To Hit the Silver Screen, Our C...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

The Death of the Left

›
From Michael Ledeen, at PJ Media (via Instapundit ): Hegel would have well understood one of the most interesting contemporary developmen...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

This Day in History: Abraham Lincoln Was Inaugurated as 16th President of the United States

›
Can you imagine, 151 years ago today, the nation's greatest president was sworn into office? And you can read Lincoln's words, &...