An Interview with Gerald J. Prokopowicz
by Jonathan WhiteAn Interview with Gerald J. Prokopowicz Jonathan W. White Gerald J. Prokopowicz is professor of history at East Carolina University and a longtime member of The Lincoln Forum Advisory Board. A highly sought-after public speaker and battlefield tour guide, Prokopowicz is perhaps best known as the host of the popular podcast Civil War Talk Radio, […]
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Lincoln the Inquirer: An Interview with M. Kelly Tillery, Esq
by M. Kelly Tillery, Sara GabbardLincoln the Inquirer: An Interview with M. Kelly Tillery, Esq Sara Gabbard Sara Gabbard: Please explain your conclusion that Abraham Lincoln was inquisitive at an early age. M. Kelly Tillery: A number of people who knew Lincoln as a boy and young man remarked on his voracious appetite for information about anything and everything. Herndon’s […]
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Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, An Interview with Allen Guelzo
by Allen C. Guelzo, Sara GabbardAbraham Lincoln: Redeemer President An Interview with Allen Guelzo by Sara Gabbard Sara Gabbard: Please explain the circumstances of this new edition of your book. Allen Guelzo: I have to answer this a little shamefacedly. I did it with a question. Four years ago, I was delivering a lecture on Lincoln in Grand Rapids, Michigan, […]
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History as Portrayed in Art: An Interview with Harold Holzer
by Harold Holzer, Sara GabbardHistory as Portrayed in Art: An Interview with Harold Holzer Sara Gabbard Sara Gabbard: Please explain the circumstances under which you and your co-authors (Gabor Boritt and Mark Neely, Jr.) undertook this enormous project. Harold Holzer: Back in 1982—it’s hard to believe it was 40 years ago!—the three of us began discussing Lincoln engravings and […]
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Lincoln & The 1862 Minnesota Sioux Trials
by Burrus M. CarnahanLincoln & The 1862 Minnesota Sioux Trials Burrus M. Carnahan One hundred and fifty years ago the Upper and Lower Sioux Reservations were located in southwestern Minnesota on a thin strip of land on the south side of the Minnesota River. After their traditional hunting grounds had been depleted by fur trapping and white settlement, […]
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Redeeming The Great Emancipator: The Harvard University Lecture, An Interview with Allen Guelzo
by Allen C. Guelzo, Sara GabbardRedeeming The Great Emancipator the Harvard University Lecture An Interview with Allen Guelzo by Sara Gabbard Sara Gabbard: What were the circumstances surrounding your Lecture titled Redeeming the Great Emancipator. Allen Guelzo: That requires a long answer. Redeeming the Great Emancipator really began in 2004, when I published Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery […]
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Lincoln Through the Eyes of History: Harold Holzer on Francis Carpenter
by Harold HolzerLincoln Through the Eyes of History: Harold Holzer on Francis Carpenter SG: When we first discussed your participation in this series of articles about Lincoln biographers, you asked if I thought that Francis Carpenter should be included. Obviously, Carpenter does not “fit into” the list of biographers who have used research techniques in order to […]
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