The claremonsters sure spend a lot of time trying to refute his work.
Well, there's Ken Masugi's review and Mackubin Owen's, also some Internet blog and bulletin board postings that spawned more web junk from the lewrockheadites in response.
But it doesn't look like the people who teach American history at the university level and review recent books in scholarly journals paid any attention to DiLorenzo's grisly tracts.
Herman Belz's review in a specialized Lincoln journal is an exception. Don Fehrenbacher's article in the same journal on "the anti-Lincoln tradition" explains the rule.
Tommy's fans are convinced that he's discovered something new and shocking. In fact his book is a warmed-over rehash of all the old Confederate propaganda going back to E.A. Pollard, Mildred Rutherford, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, and others.
Essentially, they decided in advance that the South had to have been right and they dismissed evidence to the contrary.