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The New York Times 7:00 pm on June 18, 2021
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Juneteenth Reminds Us Just How Far We Have to Go

Abolishing slavery was only one step on a winding journey.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on June 1, 2021
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Pulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns’ Marriage

In “An American Marriage,” Michael Burlingame portrays Abraham and Mary as being constantly at each other’s throat.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on April 30, 2021
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Some Statues Tell Lies. This One Tells the Truth.

Billy Frank Jr. changed the country for the better and won rights for Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on March 30, 2021
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Maryland’s State Song, a Nod to the Confederacy, Nears Repeal

The lyrics of “Maryland, My Maryland,” long criticized as sympathetic to the Confederacy, refer to Abraham Lincoln as a “despot” and Union soldiers as “Northern scum!”

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The New York Times 1:22 am on February 24, 2021
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San Francisco Pauses School Renamings to Focus on Returning Students to Classrooms

A plan to rename schools that honored people like Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson was put on hold after criticism of the plan and, particularly, its timing amid the pandemic.

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The New York Times 6:51 pm on February 18, 2021
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Chicago Lists Lincoln Statues Among Monuments to Review

A city commission, created after protests against racism last year, identified five statues of Abraham Lincoln among 41 monuments that should receive public scrutiny.

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The New York Times 12:49 am on January 28, 2021
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San Francisco Scraps 44 School Names, Citing Reckoning With Racism

The school board said the move would shed homages to figures including Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Dianne Feinstein. But critics — including the mayor — said the matter was ill-timed amid the pandemic.

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The New York Times 12:19 am on January 19, 2021
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Sharpshooters, Protesters, a Secret Train Trip

The inaugural of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is not the first to take place at a tense moment in American history.

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The New York Times 12:10 am on January 19, 2021
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Lincoln Knew in 1838 What 2021 Would Bring

Before Jefferson Davis there was John C. Calhoun. What rougher beasts do Trump, Hawley and Cruz prefigure?

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The New York Times 10:00 am on January 12, 2021
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The Bogusness of Anti-Impeachment Republicans

Suddenly they like “unity” and fear “divisiveness.” Where was that spirit when election results were being counted?

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The New York Times 10:00 am on January 12, 2021
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Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document?

In “The Crooked Path to Abolition,” James Oakes shows how Abraham Lincoln relied on America’s founding texts to chart a path to abolition.

#books-and-literature, #constitution-us, #emancipation-proclamation-1863, #lincoln-abraham, #oakes-james-1953, #slavery-historical, #united-states

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The New York Times 9:18 pm on January 8, 2021
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The Capitol Takeover That Wasn’t

In 1861, a pro-Southern mob wanted to block the tallying of electoral votes for Lincoln. So did some congressmen.

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The New York Times 10:50 am on January 8, 2021
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Gabby Giffords: 10 Years Ago, a Gunman Tried to Silence Me

During a week in which our country has endured shock, I’ve thought a lot about resilience and determination.

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The New York Times 7:45 pm on December 29, 2020
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Boston Removes Statue of Formerly Enslaved Man Kneeling Before Lincoln

Officials voted unanimously to remove “Emancipation Group” in June, after a widespread petition and hours of debate.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on December 24, 2020
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The Forgotten Radicalism of Jesus Christ

First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly inclusive figure he was, and what was true then is still true today.

#christians-and-christianity, #christmas, #empathy, #jesus-christ, #lincoln-abraham

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The New York Times 6:13 pm on November 26, 2020
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‘Loser’: How a Lifelong Fear Bookended Trump’s Presidency

The president’s inability to concede the election is the latest reality-denying moment in a career preoccupied with an epithet.

#biden-joseph-r-jr, #casinos, #cruz-ted, #disloyal-a-memoir-the-true-story-of-the-former-personal-attorney-to-president-donald-j-trump-book, #inaugurations, #lincoln-abraham, #presidential-election-of-2020, #reality-television, #republican-party, #shutdowns-institutional, #trump-donald-j, #voter-fraud-election-fraud

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The New York Times 3:32 pm on November 26, 2020
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Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Freedom

The origins of the national holiday have little to do with Pilgrims and Indians.

#civil-war-us-1861-65, #hale-sarah-josepha, #lincoln-abraham, #slavery-historical, #thanksgiving-day

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The New York Times 10:21 am on November 11, 2020
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What Is Trump Playing at?

The president’s refusal to concede that he lost the election is taking us into dangerous territory.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on November 10, 2020
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How Biden Can Rule America in Spite of Everything

It won’t be easy, but coming after a self-styled “disrupter” opens up its own possibilities.

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The New York Times 11:51 pm on October 30, 2020
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How Lincoln Survived the Worst Election Ever

There are many parallels between 1860 and 2020. Let’s hope there aren’t too many.

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The New York Times 9:44 pm on October 12, 2020
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Protesters in Portland Topple Statues of Lincoln and Roosevelt

The demonstrations highlighted a mass execution overseen by President Lincoln and also targeted Theodore Roosevelt.

#demonstrations-protests-and-riots, #george-floyd-protests-2020, #lincoln-abraham, #monuments-and-memorials-structures, #roosevelt-theodore

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The New York Times 10:29 am on October 7, 2020
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Our Leader’s Life Is at Risk. Cue the Conspiracy Theories.

Poisons, plots and psychic powers — why is the president’s health such fertile ground for the paranoid imagination?

#assassinations-and-attempted-assassinations, #conspiracy-theories, #lincoln-abraham, #poisoning-and-poisons, #presidents-and-presidency-us, #reagan-ronald-wilson, #trump-donald-j, #united-states

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The New York Times 9:00 am on October 6, 2020
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Book Review: ‘The Zealot and the Emancipator,’ by H.W. Brands

H.W. Brands’s “The Zealot and the Emancipator” looks at how two opponents of slavery chose very different paths to abolition.

#books-and-literature, #brands-h-w, #brown-john-1800-59, #civil-war-us-1861-65, #emancipation-proclamation-1863, #lincoln-abraham, #slavery-historical, #the-zealot-and-the-emancipator-john-brown-abraham-lincoln-and-the-struggle-for-american-freedom-book

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The New York Times 12:11 am on October 3, 2020
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Lincoln Has Another Lesson for Trump

The essence of the American idea is unity under the law, through and despite difference.

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The New York Times 10:08 am on October 1, 2020
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Searching for the Real Abraham Lincoln

David S. Reynolds’s “Abe” seeks to understand Lincoln by placing him in the context of his times.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on September 22, 2020
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Down With Judicial Supremacy!

The Supreme Court was never meant to be the only arbiter of the meaning of the Constitution.

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The New York Times 11:00 pm on September 11, 2020
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Remembering the Presidency of Donald Trump

I wish it were a fever dream in my Covid-clouded mind. But, no, our president believes empathy, like patriotic sacrifice, is for suckers.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on August 25, 2020
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The Never-Ending War Between the White House and the Press

Harold Holzer’s “The Presidents vs. the Press” argues that conflicts between chief executives and journalists go back to the start of the Republic.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on July 31, 2020
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More Than Just a Tweet: Trump’s Campaign to Undercut Democracy

Floating the idea of delaying the election was the latest step in the president’s running effort to discredit the election, risking long-term damage to public trust in the system.

#biden-joseph-r-jr, #clinton-hillary-rodham, #constitution-us, #democracy-theory-and-philosophy, #elections, #lincoln-abraham, #presidential-election-of-2020, #roosevelt-franklin-delano, #trump-donald-j, #united-states, #united-states-politics-and-government, #voter-fraud-election-fraud

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The New York Times 9:03 pm on July 11, 2020
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Rename theMilitary Bases That Honor Confederates

The military should rechristen bases named for Confederates. Better options are not hard to find.

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The New York Times 10:02 am on June 30, 2020
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The Ghost of Woodrow Wilson

The debts our institutions owe to the problematic past can’t just be canceled.

#columbus-christopher, #jefferson-thomas, #lincoln-abraham, #monuments-and-memorials-structures, #princeton-university, #wilson-woodrow, #yale-university

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The New York Times 9:00 am on June 30, 2020
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Is Statue-Toppling a Monumental Error?

Where you place yourself along the vanguard-to-vandals spectrum says a lot about how you see the past — and the future.

#democratic-party, #demonstrations-protests-and-riots, #hamilton-play, #jefferson-thomas, #lincoln-abraham, #monuments-and-memorials-structures, #presidential-election-of-2016, #presidential-election-of-2020, #republican-party, #slavery-historical, #united-states-politics-and-government

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The New York Times 9:38 pm on June 27, 2020
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Activists Push for Removal of Statue of Freed Slave Kneeling Before Lincoln

The Emancipation Memorial, intended to commemorate the end of slavery, has prompted a thorny debate over what the interaction between the two figures conveys.

#black-people, #emancipation-proclamation-1863, #george-floyd-protests-2020, #lincoln-abraham, #monuments-and-memorials-structures, #slavery-historical, #united-states-politics-and-government, #washington-dc

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The New York Times 9:00 am on June 12, 2020
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To Overturn Trump, We Need to Overturn White Supremacy

For that to happen, some monuments — and the historical myths they supported — are going to have to come down.

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The New York Times 5:28 am on June 6, 2020
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Trump’s False Claim That ‘Nobody Has Ever Done’ More for the Black Community Than He Has

The records of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson, among others, beg to differ.

#black-people, #civil-rights-and-liberties, #johnson-lyndon-baines, #lincoln-abraham, #presidents-and-presidency-us, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-politics-and-government

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The New York Times 11:53 pm on June 2, 2020
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America, We Break It, It’s Gone

Where can we find the leadership to save the U.S.?

#bottoms-keisha-lance, #business-roundtable, #demonstrations-protests-and-riots, #facebook-inc, #floyd-george-d-2020, #george-floyd-protests-2020, #lincoln-abraham, #minneapolis-minn, #republican-party, #social-media, #united-states

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The New York Times 9:00 am on May 29, 2020
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Why Is Trump Leaving Us to Grieve on Our Own?

The president’s indifference to collective mourning is of a piece with a political movement that denies our collective ties.

#butler-judith, #challenger-space-shuttle, #civil-war-us-1861-65, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #funerals-and-memorials, #grief-emotion, #lincoln-abraham, #speeches-and-statements, #trump-donald-j

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The New York Times 10:30 pm on May 28, 2020
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If We Had a Real Leader

Imagining Covid under a normal president.

#coronavirus-2019-ncov, #humanities, #lincoln-abraham, #trump-donald-j

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The New York Times 11:34 pm on May 16, 2020
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Sorry, Abe Lincoln Is Not on the Ballot

But the 16th president is showing up quite a bit in the 2020 race. He remains uncommitted.

#biden-joseph-r-jr, #cuomo-andrew-m, #lincoln-abraham, #presidential-election-of-2020, #presidents-and-presidency-us, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-politics-and-government

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The New York Times 9:00 am on May 15, 2020
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Coronavirus Shows that the Post Office is the Most American Thing We’ve Got

Trump calls it ‘a joke.’ Washington and Lincoln would disagree.

#farley-james-a-general-post-office-manhattan-ny, #lincoln-abraham, #postal-service-us, #postal-service-and-post-offices, #trump-donald-j

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