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Recollection of 1895: Thomas J. Henderson’s “Recollections of Lincoln”

Battle Hymns

The Long Shadow of Ex Parte Milligan

Allen C. Guelzo is a professor of humanities in the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education. He is a New York Times best-selling author on the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln. He is currently involved in researching Lincoln's political writings and describing the political and economic ideas which Lincoln thought best expressed the spirit of American democracy. He is also researching the life of Civil War soldiers in the great Maryland Campaign of 1862 and is involved in a multi-volume edition of the newly-discovered letters of a Union officer who served in the Antietam and Gettysburg campaigns and the 1864 March to the Sea. He teaches courses on Lincoln, the Civil War, the Constitution in the Civil War and on the history of American ideas.

Abraham Lincoln

American History

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'Our Ancient Faith' looks at Lincoln's vision of democracy

Can American democracy survive the pressure it's under? A historian has an answer

Allen Guelzo

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