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my name is michelle kroll, and im the lincoln forums secretary. and im delighted to to introduce the speakers to conclude this session. we now turn our attention to the topic of lincoln and the democrats. let me briefly introduce the panelists before turning the program over to our moderator, jonathan white. so proceeding in alphabetical order, reg ankrom is the author of two of a projected three volume biography of democrats stephen a douglas, who played such a pivotal role in america...

One hundred and fifty-eight years ago this month, the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, was barely passed in the House of Representatives, which was surprising considering that all of the

Congress has to get serious about the 14th Amendment. So does President Biden.

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Republican Party, byname Grand Old Party (GOP), in the United States, one of the two major political parties, the other being the Democratic Party. During the 19th century the Republican Party stood against the extension of slavery to the country’s new territories and, ultimately, for slavery’s complete abolition. During the 20th and 21st centuries the party came to be associated with laissez-faire capitalism, low taxes, and conservative social policies. The party acquired the acronym GOP, ...

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Chester A. Arthur, a fixture of New York's patronage system, did a 180 to our collective benefit in 1883.

The outlook for the re-nomination and re-election of President Abraham Lincoln does not appear promising. The nearly three-year-old Civil War continues to rage and many Northerners shake their heads in disbelief as their sons continue to die by the thousands each month on Southern battlefields. They doubt Republican Lincoln’s ability to bring hostilities to a peaceful close. Most leaders in the Republican Party now say that the party is not strong enough alone to re-nominate Lincoln so they f...

Spread the love The question dealing with the press is not something new. Matthew Lyon was the first person to be put on trial for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, after publishing criticism of President John Adams. The Sedition Act of 1798 criminalized the “writing, printing, uttering or publishing [of] any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings about the government of the United States.” Indeed, Trump could have and should have charged people from the media wh...