One Eternal Day

Allen C. Guelzo : ‘How long ago is it—80-odd years?” Abraham Lincoln asked the crowd that had marched to the White House to celebrate the tw...

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) is available on Amazon Prime for a modest rental fee and on YouTube, also for a fee. If you've never seen it...

On the anniversary of his birth:   Lincoln, age 28, in 1844: from the Lyceum Address delivered in Springfield: .... If destruction be ou...

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. These words from the conclusion of Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (March ...

For some reason, this came to mind today. Matthew Bracewell and his wife may have been Stonefort Seventh Day Baptist Church members. Pope Co...

On Independence Day in 1862 Frederick Douglass delivered an address in Himrod, New York. This is only a small selection of passages from tha...

Has the country ever been so divided? Well, yes, several times, including the 1860 Presidential election. From this review of a recent book...

When Nikki Haley seemed not to know the cause of the American Civil War, that whole argument re-emerged. The answer to the question is simpl...

I have twelve films in my DVD collection directed by John Ford. Hitchcock is the only director with more. About  Ford at Wikipedia : He rec...

From Barton Swaim's review of Lincoln's God : .... Since his early 20s—that is, after he left home in 1831 and was no longer under ...

Allen Guelzo on Lincoln on democracy : .... The least well-examined words of the address...are its expansive triplet: “government of the peo...

The Library of America has combined three Bruce Catton books in its The Army of the Potomac Trilogy . From Harold Holzer's "Echoes ...

President Abraham Lincoln on March 30, 1863 : [W]hereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overru...

A former Harvard president, now a history professor, makes a disturbing discovery : It was a good book, the student told the 14 others in t...

Nathan Schlueter asks "Is Compromise Evil?" Using positions on abolitionism before the Civil War, he argues we should avoid some ...

Patrick Kurp on Lincoln and Dred Scott : On June 26, 1857, in Springfield, Ill., his final resting place eight years later, Abraham Lincoln ...

On the anniversary of his birth, an appreciation of Lincoln before he became President, "A genius for friendship." : Lincoln is su...

Quoted online today , Lincon in his 1842 "Temperance Address" : When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, ...

From an interesting review of a new biography of Robert E. Lee, Robert E. Lee: A Life , by Allen C. Guelzo. The reviewer is Andrew Ferguson...

Patrick Kurp writes about Lincoln's strengths as a writer beginning by quoting from his first inaugural address , delivered one hundred...