Abraham Lincoln

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/19/2020
  

  John Brown And Abraham Lincoln: Divergent Paths In The Fight To End Slavery (audio)

  H.W. Brands discusses his new book "The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom" with NPR's Fresh Air. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/8/2020
  

  Kamala Harris’s ‘Little History Lesson’ About Lincoln’s Supreme Court Vacancy Wasn’t Exactly True

  Lincoln delayed in announcing a replacement to Chief Justice Roger Taney in large part because the leaving the appointment unresolved would help preserve his fragile coalition through the election, especially by inducing potential rivals to campaign for him.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/12/2020
  

  Packing the Court: Amid National Crises, Lincoln and His Republicans Remade the Supreme Court to Fit their Agenda

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  In remaking the court in Republicans’ image, the party got what it wanted – but not what was needed to fulfill the promise of “a new birth of freedom.”

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• 10/11/2020
  

  Like Lincoln, Biden at Gettysburg Urges Reunification

  by Walter G. Moss

  Joe Biden's speech evoked the calls for unity and shared purpose made by presidents from Lincoln to FDR to Obama. The coming weeks will tell if voters embrace the message.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/6/2020
  

  How Abraham Lincoln Confronted—and Helped Spread—Political Misinformation

  by Elizabeth Mitchell

  Today's media makes it easier to identify stories with reporters who have a track record for credibility (or lack thereof), and harder for political partisans to plant misinformation, though as even Honest Abe's track record shows, politicians will use disinformation to their advantage as much as they can. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  10/5/2020
  

  Holding an Election During the Civil War Set the Standard for Us Today

  by Jonathan W. White

  “We can not have free government without elections,” Lincoln told the crowd, “and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.” 

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
  9/28/2020
  

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Abraham Lincoln, and American Jewish History

  by Rebecca Brenner Graham

  Public mourning for Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a prominent Jewish American evokes Abraham Lincoln's role in supporting Jews in Civil War service, and the Jewish community's mourning after his assassination.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/21/2020
  

  Why We Keep Reinventing Abraham Lincoln

  Adam Gopnik considers new books about Lincoln by David S. Reynolds and Sidney Blumenthal that address the personality and governing of the 16th president. 

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  Lara Trump Seems To Have Gotten Her Abraham Lincoln Quote From A Meme — And It’s Wrong

  Lincoln may have once shared the sentiment, just not the actual words.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  8/17/2020
  

  Read Thousands of Abraham Lincoln’s Newly Transcribed Letters Online

  The missives, preserved by the Library of Congress, include notes to and from the beloved president.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/6/2020
  

  1864 Elections Went on During the Civil War – Even Though Lincoln Thought it Would be a Disaster for Himself and the Republican Party

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  Abraham Lincoln understood that the war for the Union was about the integrity of a constitutional republic, not the president or the party.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/11/2020
  

  Trump has Never Even Read a 'Children's Book' about Abraham Lincoln: Douglas Brinkley (Video)

  Douglas Brinkley recounts part of an interview with Trump in which the President's lack of erudition was revealed. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/7/2020
  

  A New Statue Of Lincoln Will Adequately Honor Him Alongside Black Americans

  by Frank Smith

  The African American Civil War Memorial plans a different commemoration of Lincoln's role in emancipation. 

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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.