Slavery Abolition

President Abraham Lincoln presented the sword to First Lieutenant John Wesley Jones (1826-1905) in 1862 for his service commanding the White House Guard. Abraham Lincoln is one of our nation's most revered presidents.  Among his accomplishments were leading t…

Steve Innskeeps column in the New York Times on Thursday is resonant of the piece I wrote on Wednesday on the conservative movement being identity politics for white people, but it comes with an additional warning. Innskeep recently wrote a book on John C. Fr…

Skip to comments. 1776 Honors Americas Diversity in a Way 1619 Does Not: Academic historians, conservatives, and Trotskyist socialists rightly reject The New York Times reframing of the past.The Atlantic ^ | January 6, 2020 | Conor Friedersdorf Posted …

Jonathan Coe has won a Costa Book Award for his Brexit-themed novel Middle England. The book, billed as a story of nostalgia and delusion, was one of several winners announced on Monday. It distinguished itself in the novel category. Judges described it as …

Skip to comments. In apparent appeal to President Trump, imprisoned Rod Blagojevich argues todays Democrats would have impeached Abraham LincolnThe Chicago Tribune ^ | January 1, 2020 | Elvia Malagn Posted on 01/02/2020 8:49:28 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks…

CHICAGO -- Imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich argued in a column that fellow Democrats in the U.S. House who impeached President Donald Trump also would have tried to remove Abraham Lincoln. Blagojevich, who is serving a 14-year federal senten…

CHICAGO (AP) Imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich argued in a column that fellow Democrats in the U.S. House who impeached President Donald Trump also would have tried to remove Abraham Lincoln. Blagojevich, who is serving a 14-year federal senten…

In general, unfortunately, the qualifications required to gain power and keep it have almost no connection with those required to govern with competence and impartiality. – Jean-François Revel (1924-2006), French author and philosopher. (In Ni Marx ni Jésus, …

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves, Abraham Lincoln. The headlines are unrelenting: Woman docked for locking maid in the toilet for 20 days Woman called out for burning 10-year-old housemaid with hot iron Police arrest madam w…

I can’t come up with lists like “these are the books I’m reading this Christmas holiday” because I read at most two books at a time slowly and methodically. For my bedtime reading, which gets me through about 10 pages before I get sleepy and turn out the ligh…