Status Updates From The Problem with Lincoln: T...

technically done!

final chapter!

on page 129 of 248 let's go

read a ton of pages today, i am satisfied

god damn

i hate this book

was supposed to be reading this throughout break. oops

why did i choose this book to suffer through

bro lincoln's an opp

so much freaking sass from this guy

this is kinda ass i'm gonna love tearing it apart

“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.“

“The doctrine [of the Gettysburg Address] is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination.… It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”

—H. L. Mencken, May 1920

“J. G. Randall, who has been called ‘the greatest Lincoln scholar of all time,’ said the [Emancipation] Proclamation… did not free a single slave.… It is… scandalous that Americans, black and white, are so totally misinformed on this subject.”