Kale on Books: McCarthyism, a Lincoln history and a look at the city of Petersburg
Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, ...
New Abraham Lincoln book focuses on debates with Stephen Douglas
Third book in planned five-part series from local author Jan Jacobi, “Lincoln and Douglas” deals with Lincoln's historic ...
Review: 'Lincoln’s Peace' offers lessons for these times from the Civil War
"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...
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The Gettysburg Address revisited and thereafter
February 12 marks the birth of one of the greatest leaders of the United States of America. On February 12, 1809 one person ...
'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled - review
In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.
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'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled - review
Three years before Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech, she declared that “Freedom and slavery could no more exist together than truth and falsehood.” Rose’s critique of slavery ...
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Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War
Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices ... the fighting stops. Abraham Lincoln wanted to “let ...