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Lincoln & Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages. Edited by Lucas E. Morel. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. Pp. 369. For generations, historians have been arguing over which of the founding documents Abraham Lincoln revered more: the Declara-tion of Independence or the Constitution. Lincoln himself left room for doubt.
Lincoln used the term history to mean all three of these understandings, so will I. This paper will argue that Abraham Lincoln used the past as an essential source of wisdom to guide himself and the nation throughout the course of his political career. There are four distinct elements to Lincoln’s use of the past in his political career: 1.
Lincoln & liberty : wisdom for the ages / edited by Lucas E. Morel ; introduction by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Lincoln and Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages ed. by Lucas E. Morel (review) Harold Holzer; Civil War History; The Kent State University Press; Volume 63, Number 1, March 2017; pp. 90-92; 10.1353/cwh.2017.0014; Review
Editor, Lincoln and Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages (University Press of Kentucky, 2015): Introduction and Chapter, “Lincoln, Liberty, and the American Constitutional Union” Editor, Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man
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He is the author of Lincoln and the American Founding and Lincoln’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government; and editor of Lincoln and Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages. Dr. Morel was the Garwood Visiting Research Fellow at the James Madison Program in 2008-2009.
