Here is an excerpt of Suri’s new book Civil War By Other Means. It is published at Lit Hub: The reverence for the slain president grew in coming days. On April 19, a horse-drawn hearse carried Lincoln’s body to the...
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Trump may not be the only president to spread a deadly disease. Here is Michael Rosenwald at The Washington Post: On his way home from delivering the Gettysburg Address in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln was overcome by a splitting headache....
Joe Biden was in Gettysburg on Monday and he gave a pretty good speech. Watch: Let’s remember again that Lincoln’s call for unity and healing and the binding of wounds came after the Confederacy was all but defeated. Biden is...
As we noted yesterday, Trump may accept the GOP nomination for president at Gettysburg battlefield. Manisha Sinha, a historian who is no stranger to followers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog and podcast, shares her thoughts at CNN....
Civil War historians get ready. Here is Lauren Gambino at The Guardian: Donald Trump said on Monday that he is considering accepting the Republican presidential nomination later this month with a speech at the civil war battlefield of Gettysburg, one of...
It is a beautiful today in south-central Pennsylvania–a perfect day to spend some time on the Gettysburg battlefield. This morning we took ten students from my Pennsylvania history class to Gettysburg. We have been reading Jim Weeks’s book Gettysburg: Memory, Market,...
November 19, 2013: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsvx3GIG58&w=560&h=315]...
The History News Network has picked up a slightly longer version of yesterday’s post on this topic. Here is a taste: There is no conspiracy here. Obama did not omit the words “under God” because he was trying to...
Conservatives are going crazy today because Barack Obama, while participating in a Ken Burns project on the Gettysburg Address, left out the phrase “under God” in his recitation of this great speech by Abraham Lincoln. When I first heard this, […]
In case you have not heard, the Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News, known in 1863 as the Patriot & Union, did not like Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In light of tomorrow’s 150th anniversary of the address, the newspaper has decided to retract its...
Ken Burns is working on a new documentary film about the Civil War. It is called “The Address” and it chronicles the story of a group of Vermont schoolboys with learning disabilities who memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address. Here...
You may recall that last month we blogged about a First Things article by Robert George in which he relayed his experience at a meeting of the American Constitutional Society for Law and Policy. At that meeting George was given […]
