The Abbeville Institute and The Southern Tradition
America has a Lincoln problem. Professor Tom DiLorenzo explains why our nearly deification of “Honest Abe” presents a fundamental problem for our understanding of both the American past and the American present.
Historians on both the left and the right have called for the removal of Confederate monuments. The mob has illegally and violently torn many down and others are winding up at sewage treatment plants. Philip Leigh explains why this is un-American.
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address invented history in 1863. Professor Brion McClanahan explains that his fairy tale speech was neither popular at the time nor historically accurate either then or today.