lincoln

The standard story of the US Civil War is about gallantry and a close contest. This supports the romance that war can be a solution to a political problem and that it could have potentially solved the problem of slavery lasting longer in the 11 Confederate states than the rest of the western...

With malice towards all and charity towards none of Abraham Lincoln's principles and actions, The Real Lincoln is the latest attempt to finish the job so ignobly begun by John Wilkes Booth in April 1865. Although Lincoln breathed no more after that, his character and reputation lived on, to be...