All posts tagged "Abraham Lincoln"
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Books
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
October 28, 2024The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
October 24, 2024As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
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Movies
The Weekly Listicle Analyzes History’s Greatest (And Not So Greatest) Leaders
May 29, 2024A discussion about biopics centered on national leaders.
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
March 25, 2024This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
December 29, 2023Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
December 8, 2023Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
October 22, 2023What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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Movies
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
September 7, 2023The director’s signature speedy, frenetic zooms punctuate a film that’s smoothly paced and winkingly earnest. The...