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This Guilty Land: Every Possible Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is widely revered, while many Americans consider John Brown mad. Yet it was Brown’s strategy that brought slavery to an end.
by
Eric Foner
via
London Review of Books
on
December 17, 2020
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Refusing to Accept the Results of a Presidential Election Triggered the Civil War
The danger of President Trump's rhetoric.
by
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
via
Made By History
on
October 2, 2020
Why We Keep Reinventing Abraham Lincoln
Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?
by
Adam Gopnik
via
The New Yorker
on
September 21, 2020
Emancipation in War: The United States and Peru
A comparative look at the U.S. and Peru's emancipation proclamations' nuances in declaring the freedom of enslaved peoples.
by
Niels Eichhorn
via
Muster
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September 15, 2020
The 1619 Project and the ‘Anti-Lincoln Tradition’
The Great Emancipator's character and anti-slavery legacy has been questioned by Black Americans for over a century.
by
E. James West
via
Black Perspectives
on
August 11, 2020
Lincoln’s Forgotten Legacy as America’s First ‘Green President’
Lincoln protected thousands of acres of California forest and wanted to restore the nation’s battle-ravaged countryside before he was assassinated.
by
Hannah Natanson
via
Retropolis
on
February 16, 2020
Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden, and the Politics of Touch
A history of tactile politics.
by
Mark M. Smith
via
The Conversation
on
April 17, 2019
So What if Lincoln Was Gay?
Reflections from the author of a novel that does not shy away from the question of Lincoln's sexuality.
by
Louis Bayard
via
The Paris Review
on
April 16, 2019
Abraham Lincoln’s Foreign Policy Helped Win the Civil War
Why Lincoln’s "one war at a time" doctrine saved the Union.
by
Kevin Peraino
,
Alex Ward
via
Vox
on
February 18, 2019
Abraham Lincoln's Secret Visits to Slaves
Former slaves claimed the president came to plantations disguised as a beggar or a peddler, telling them they’d soon be free.
by
Bill Black
via
The Atlantic
on
February 12, 2018
Lincoln: The Great Uncompromiser
He fought to remake the center—not yield to it.
by
Matthew Karp
via
The Nation
on
October 25, 2017
The Great Lengths Taken to Make Abraham Lincoln Look Good in Portraits
One famous image of the president features a body that isn't his.
by
Michael Waters
via
Atlas Obscura
on
July 12, 2017
The Making of an Antislavery President
Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.
by
Eric Herschthal
via
The New Republic
on
June 23, 2017
Looking Back to Lincoln
During the Great Depression, Americans found solace in history.
by
Fishko Files
via
WNYC
on
May 11, 2017
Did Abraham Lincoln’s Bromance Alter the Course of American History?
Joshua Speed found his BFF in Abraham Lincoln.
by
Charles B. Strozier
via
The Conversation
on
February 15, 2017
A Topic Best Avoided
After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?
by
Nicholas Guyatt
via
London Review of Books
on
December 1, 2011
Lincoln's Great Depression
Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life. But what would today be treated as a "character issue" gave Lincoln the tools to save the nation.
by
Joshua Wolf Shenk
via
The Atlantic
on
October 1, 2005
The Gettysburg Address
In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speeches in U.S. history.
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Voices Of Democracy
on
November 19, 1863
The Columbian Orator Taught Nineteenth-Century Americans How to Speak
For strivers like Lincoln, guides to rhetoric had a special currency in the nineteenth century.
by
Danny Heitman
via
Humanities
on
April 2, 2025
Lincoln's Duel
In the summer of 1842, young Abraham Lincoln’s razor-sharp wit almost got him into a whole heap of trouble.
by
Harold Holzer
via
The Saturday Evening Post
on
February 12, 2025
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