Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan as early as November, 1861 - but no slaveholders were willing to go along with it.
No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils. - Allen C. Guelzo
No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.
- Allen C. Guelzo
It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven… - Allen C. Guelzo
It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven…
I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the historians' eye. … - Allen C. Guelzo
I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the historians' eye. …
We still know so little about how the brain interacts with the body chemistry or, for that matter, whether we should be talking about the brain or th… - Allen C. Guelzo
We still know so little about how the brain interacts with the body chemistry or, for that matter, whether we should be talking about the brain or th…
I think, a general anxiety, after the end of the Cold War, to find a new basis for affirming American nationhood. And perhaps another, in plainer ter… - Allen C. Guelzo
I think, a general anxiety, after the end of the Cold War, to find a new basis for affirming American nationhood. And perhaps another, in plainer ter…
The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves. - Allen C. Guelzo
The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
Corporate organization in American business and commerce was already well under way by the time Abraham Lincoln became president. But all the evidenc… - Allen C. Guelzo
Corporate organization in American business and commerce was already well under way by the time Abraham Lincoln became president. But all the evidenc…
Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln would off… - Allen C. Guelzo
Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln would off…
What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss even the l… - Allen C. Guelzo
What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss even the l…
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