Author of the The Real Lincoln to speak TODAY at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

[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. 

[stand watie]

as the authors of the secessionist documents represented NOBODY but themselves,your comment is again STUPID, mis-informed & off-point.

you, imVho, are not smart enough to be a FReeper, if you REALLY believe the bilge yopu post.

head over to DU;they'll really like your drivel.

free dixie,sw

[Treebeard]

Misspelling words when you're trying to be clever makes you look like more of a moron than you are, and that appears to be a high bar.

[Sequoya]

Your own post nailed you. Any other tyrant lovers care to try to spin away the facts?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

It does seem to be a Democrat malady, doesn't it?

[Sequoya]

Quote the law that lets the nonresidents vote or the one that lets the army watch you mark your ballot.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Typo. Besides, check your tagline - you didn't close all your parentheses.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

...as the authors of the secessionist documents represented NOBODY but themselves,your comment is again STUPID, mis-informed & off-point.

Baghdad Bob? Is that you?

Are you trying to say that those secession ordinances were not read in full and voted on in their respective legislatures?

[A. Patriot]

Thanks for the facts.

[stand watie]

since you are the one who keeps bringing up the documents, (which BTW most serious scholars DISCOUNT as un-important pieces of personal opinion-nothing more, nothing less)can you PROVE that any state did vote on the documents?

can you even PROVE that the private opinions/writings of a handful of wealthy planter-aristocrats were read by anyone but themselves & a few close friends?

hardly ANYONE read the "secessionist documents" in the WBTS period;fewer cared.in point of fact, most newspapers, rightly in my view, IGNORED the writings as UN-important.

free dixie,sw

[SCDogPapa]

"Actually you have shown, unintentionally I assume, why we find DiLorenzo so ridiculous. "

Non, I did not realize I was quoting Dilorenzo. I pulled all of that off a site last year. During that time, I did not copy a source for stuff I posted. You and a WP, taught me a lesson about being able to provide a sourse. Since then when I copy something, I make sure to provide a source. So if called I can at least provide it.

As far as his book, I have not read it. Thanks for the full quote.

[Dawntreader]

I see you are already here! I was just going to bump you...

[SCDogPapa]

"Apocryphal."

Damn Walt, pulling out the $5 words!! If you had said FICTITIOUS,,I would have known what you ment. :)

Yep,,,seen that before.

[rebelyell]

Still arguing with these war criminal apologists? lol

I wonder how many millions of southrons celebrated the death of the American tyrant yesterday? Isn't it ironic that federal income taxes are due on the day that he was killed?

[Lady Eileen]

George Mason bump. For him, the school named after him, and the truths they teach there. Walter E Williams bump.

Ditto.

[Dawntreader]

Do you live near there? Are you going to go to this?

[Non-Sequitur]

Baghdad Bob? Is that you?

Naw, that's stande waite. The e.e. cummings of the confederacy. He's jes a whole big ball of fun once you get to know him.

[SCDogPapa]

I try not to argue, but they seem like they want to. LOL!!!

Same day,,huh,,could be a law,,I don't know. LOL!!!

I wonder how many of them wait till the 15th.

I always file the first week in February. Good to "see" you again.

[rebelyell]

"the great emancipator"....what a horrible joke. The only thing great about the man was his lust for power and complete and total disregard for the Constitution and wishes of the founders. Every time I see one of these hero-worshipping blowhards falling all over themselves to defend the tyrant I chuckle at their ignorance. The brainwashing is nearly complete now...the marxists must be ecstatic.

Hope you and yours are doing well. Nice weather we're having in God's Country, isn't it?!

Deo vindice!

[Leatherneck_MT]

Worse

Lincoln destroyed the Constitution that was in place.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Your own post nailed you. Any other tyrant lovers care to try to spin away the facts?

You haven't posted any facts within the proper context.

I guess that is what I do in these threads -- provide context.

Walt