[xrp]

Good post. History paints an inaccurate picture of Abraham Lincoln. Of course, history is written by the victors and the victors are now running America's schools.

Scary.

[noname]

I studied the Civil War in school in New York State and again later in College in Michigan. I studied the "War between the States" my senior year in high school in Virginia, where I was informed by my peers that "it wasn't over yet." The way this war was taught in the South was so different from the North that at first I wasn't sure they were talking about the same war. Your essay is right on. It was General Sherman in his march to the sea that declared every man, woman and child as combatants, and murdered his way thru the South. I am really tired of being lied to by all of our current educational institutions and other authorities. Regards to all

[Lady Eileen]

Washington, DC-area Freepers interested in Lincoln and/or the War Between the States should take note of a seminar held later today on the Fairfax campus of George Mason University:

The conventional wisdom in America is that Abraham Lincoln was a great emancipator who preserved American liberties.  In recent years, new research has portrayed a less-flattering Lincoln that often behaved as a self-seeking politician who catered to special interest groups. So which is the real Lincoln? 

On Wednesday, April 16, Thomas DiLorenzo, a former George Mason University professor of Economics, will host a seminar on that very topic. It will highlight his controversial but influential new book, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War.  In the Real Lincoln, DiLorenzo exposes the conventional wisdom of Lincoln as based on fallacies and myths propagated by our political leaders and public education system. 

The seminar, which will be held in Rooms 3&4 of the GMU Student Union II, will start at 5:00 PM.  Copies of the book will be available for sale during a brief autograph session after the seminar.