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Vor 23 Stunden · Dive into the profound wisdom of the world's greatest minds. This series brings you life-changing quotes from philosophers like Socrates and Marcus Aurelius,...
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Vor einem Tag · In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted that the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal". He defined the war as dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality for all. He declared that the deaths of so many brave soldiers would ...
Vor einem Tag · Lincoln drove home the inconsistency between Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” principle and the Dred Scott decision (1857), in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that Congress could not constitutionally exclude slavery from the territories.
Vor 5 Tagen · Since the Civil War, Americans have remembered Lincoln's presidential humor as ‘wholly positive and benign’, but during his lifetime that was far from true (p. 122). In the president, Democrats perceived not a wit, but a witless. One of the joys of reading the book is proximity to Lincoln.
Vor 3 Tagen · James Oakes’s recent study, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2007) explores this question through an examination of the relationship between the great African American abolitionist and the president who ultimately issued a proclamation to free slaves ...
Vor 23 Stunden · The basic outlines of the story are well known, prefigured by Julia Ward Howe’s lyrics to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”: Lincoln was Christ, who died to wash away the nation’s sins and to redeem the blood of the righteous crusade, and post-Civil War America was the New Covenant of American Manifest Destiny layered on top of the old. Thus the war was characterized as necessary to ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation recognized the legal freedom of the 3.5 million slaves then held in Confederate territory and established emancipation as a Union war goal. In 1865, Lincoln was instrumental in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery unconstitutional.
