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3 days ago · The choice of a Greek temple-style design was a deliberate one, intended to symbolize Lincoln‘s timeless wisdom and democratic ideals (National Park Service, 2021). In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially broke ground on the project, marking the beginning of an eight-year construction process that would employ hundreds of workers and ...
4 days ago · In Our Ancient Faith, Allen C. Guelzo, a research scholar in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, explains how Lincoln’s deeply held and unshakeable faith in democracy developed, and how it guided his governing philosophy during the Civil War.
6 days ago · Remembering the Toleration Act and the good of religious liberty. By Adam Carrington. May 24, 2024 6:00 am. In his Lyceum Address, a young Abraham Lincoln praised the Founding Fathers for creating ...
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1 day ago · Abraham Lincoln ( / ˈlɪŋkən / LING-kən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
2 days ago · Jeremy S. Adams is the author of the new book Lessons in Liberty: Thirty Rules For Living From Ten Extraordinary Americans (2024) and was the Daughter's of the American Revolution 2014 California State Teacher of the Year. Let us study the best American men and women in our rich history and focus on the best they have to offer.
6 days ago · The Lincoln worshipers – historian Gabor Boritt applies the word “Gospel” to Lincoln’s utterances – are simply wrong; and Johnson shows in dozens of ways how they don’t care if they are wrong as long as they can sustain the false façade of emancipator. In humble adoration of Lincoln, Mario Cuomo says his life is part of “American ...
5 days ago · He objected to the Mexican war and believed each of these disordered forms of patriotism threatened the inseparable moral and fraternal bonds of liberty and union that he sought to perpetuate through a patriotic love of country guided by wisdom and critical self-awareness. Lincoln's "Eulogy to Henry Clay", June 6, 1852, provides the most cogent ...
