Instead, he was re-elected, assassinated and the horrific legacy of reconstruction was blamed on others ... Lincoln wasn't a good president. ... Lincoln wasn't a good president. He wasn't even a mediocre president. He was a terrible president. ... But what we can judge is the values played out in actions taken, and in that sense, Lincoln was pretty ... There are those, of course, that will argue that Lincoln would have done things differently, and that

Move ‘em on out! Makes one wonder about why Trump wants to do this to the Palestinians, though. ... Roy Basler, the editor of The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, wrote that as of 1857 Lincoln had no ... As Phil Magness and Sebastian Page documented in their book, Colonization after Emancipation, Lincoln ... Lincoln himself said that sending all the black people to Africa would be “the ultimate redemption of ... As president Lincoln held a White House meeting with free black men and implored them to lead by example

, it was one of five military missions sent into Southern waters by Abraham Lincoln in March and April ... Indeed, Abraham Lincoln also defended white supremacy: >I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing ... Gene Kizer Jr points out that: > When Lincoln’s naval mission arrived in Charleston on April 12, 1861 ... He also wrote to his wife that, > All Congresses on earth can’t make the negro any thing else than what ... Stephens’ remarks overlooks a second gaping hole in the revisionist theory, namely, that Stephens’ views on

Why is the nature of the War between the States—and the roles of Lincoln and Lee within that war—relevant ... The real traitor was Lincoln, who unilaterally upended the balance of power between the states and the ... the union of states established by the Constitution, in the course of which he argues that Abraham Lincoln—far ... Lincoln was the monster and Lee was the hero is just opposite of what the court historians have written

—which is farcical to anyone who knows the real Lincoln had no desire to take away anyone’s slaves. ... A typical rendition of this puerile humor is that “Democrats haven’t been this upset since Abraham Lincoln ... time when the subject of slavery is deemed to be so sensitive that the language police scold everyone on ... I guess the politics of the ignorant is the same no matter which side of the isle they are on. ... A t-shirt with Lincoln’s face emblazoned on it declares, “I haven’t seen the Democrats this mad since

The image we hold of Lincoln is the image written by the victors. ... The author of this review takes the point of view that Lincoln was not worthy of the worship that he ... among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” as this clause was interpreted by Abraham Lincoln

He caught on and tried to reverse this action, and that's why they killed him. Same with Kennedy.

This debate about the constitutionality of slavery has been reignited by antiracist interpretations of Lincoln ... abolitionism was the prevailing ideology of the Northern states and the primary reason why they supported Lincoln