Drs. Lucas Morel and Allen Guelzo: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+12+Morel+and+Guelzo.mp3 | Open Player in New Window

Focus

In the face of modern-day critics from both the Right and the Left, does Lincoln still “belong to the ages”?

Readings

Lerone Bennett, Forced into Glory, 5-21

Thomas DiLorenzo, The Real Abraham Lincoln, 257-279, 306-308

Fornieri, The Language of Liberty

Fragments: On Slavery [July 1, 1854?]

The Dred Scott Decision: Speech at Springfield, Illinois (June 26, 1857)

Letter to H.L. Pierce and Others (April 6, 1859)

Letter to J.N. Brown (October 18, 1858)