Lincoln

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/2020
  

  Trump’s Claim that He’s Done More for Black Americans than any President Since Lincoln (Fact Check)

  Historians Michael Beschloss, David Garrow, H.W. Brands, Max J. Skidmore and David Greenberg argue that LBJ is in fact second to Lincoln in this regard.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/2020
  

  The Attempted Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  In their new book, Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch provide a remarkable and often riveting account of an alleged plot to kill Lincoln in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration in Washington in February 1861.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  4/30/2020
  

  Did Lincoln Take his Cues From Congress?

  Historian Allen C. Guelzo reviews Fergus Bordewich's new book "Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America," which argues that the 37th and 38th Congresses had a bigger role in the abolition of slavery than the 16th president.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Times
  November 30, 2019
  

  Trump beats out Lincoln as better president, majority of Republicans say in new poll

  by Andrew Blake

  Trump may have beaten Lincoln as a "better president" to some GOP members, but 59% of GOP faithful say Reagan still was better than Trump

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  Accessed 9/19/19
  

  Allen C. Guelzo Reviews Sidney Blumenthal's Latest Installment of His Biography of Lincoln

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  "Blumenthal never allows the intensity of Lincoln’s story to flag for a moment."

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9/4/19
  

  Donald Trump’s Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  Republicans have embraced all that Lincoln loathed.

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• 9/8/19
  

  A Nation Headed to Civil War: The Compromise of 1850

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  An excerpt from ALL THE POWERS OF EARTH by Sidney Blumenthal.

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• SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
  8/25/19
  

  Can you name the Republican president who risked his career for Mexico?

  by Michael Hogan

  A failure to teach the full and complex 19th century history of the U.S. and Mexico in U.S. classrooms has resulted in ignorance that helps feed anti-Mexico prejudice. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/23/19
  

  Lincoln Would Not Recognize His Own Party

  by David W. Blight

  He would see the Republicans as the antithesis of everything he fought for.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/30/19
  

  How Lincoln's disdain for demagogues pricks Trump's Fourth of July pomposity

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  If nothing else, the president’s speech on the Mall on Thursday will show how far we have fallen since Lincoln.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  A New Lincoln Bible, From a Mantel to a Presidential Library

  More than 150 years later, historians have discovered the Bible for the first time, a unique artifact of the 16th president’s life that they did not even know existed.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/21/19
  

  'Honest Babe.' People Are Having a Hard Time Keeping It Together Thanks to This Chiseled Abraham Lincoln Statue

  The Young Lincoln statue first made its splashy debut at the New York World’s Fair in 1939.

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• SOURCE: Alabama.com
  2/18/19
  

  Alabama omits Civil War leader Abraham Lincoln from Presidents Day holiday

  The reason for the Alabama variation stems from old grudges birthed in the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Fox News
  2/12/19
  

  30 acres once owned by Abraham Lincoln in Illinois sold for $300,000

  According to the newspaper, Lincoln bought 40 acres in 1841 from his cash-strapped father, Thomas Lincoln. It is said to be the only farm he ever owned, though he let his father continue to farm it.

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• SOURCE: Mic
  

  Historians say Dinesh D’Souza lured them under false pretenses to interview for new pro-Trump film

  That’s the reason name historians show up in his widely discredited film.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-17-18
  

  A New Film Compares Democrats to Nazis and Trump to Lincoln

  At a screening in northern Ohio’s Medina County, it was a hit.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  6-11-18
  

  Dinesh D'Souza's next film to draw comparisons between Trump and Lincoln

  Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who was recently pardoned by President Trump, is making comparisons for his next film between the Democratic resistance to Trump and how Democrats didn’t accept President Lincoln’s reelection during the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  3/2/18 (date accessed)
  

  Former Clinton speech writer Ted Widmer discovers Thomas Nast drawings of Lincoln

  by Adam Gopnik

  Widmer, who teaches history at Brown, came across the sketches while working on a book about Lincoln's train trip from Springfield to Washington.

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• 3/4/18
  

  What Makes for a Good Leader in War?

  by Lewis E. Lehrman

  Churchill and Lincoln provide a fascinating answer.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  2-11-18
  

  Did Abraham Lincoln sleep here?

  Visitors to a small log cabin in Kentucky are right to ask: Is it true that Abraham Lincoln slept here?