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. 

[rebelyell]

Everything they spout makes me gag.

[stand watie]

and certainly no farther than washington, dc under lincoln & his group of crooks!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

TRUE!

if new england decided tommorrow to leave the union Please God, let that happen!), i would make a special trip north to wave GOOD-BYE to them & wish them well!

FRee dixie,sw

[Corin Stormhands]

PLEASE don't include me in the ranks of those who bow each morning to their clay-footed saint.

Didn't mean to. We're both southernors who respect our heritage. We disagree regarding Lincoln.

But neither of us, as has been libelously asserted, is a Marxist or un-American.

[stand watie]

that's a laugh!

lincon would have done exactly what the radicals wanted. all that was important to him was being re-elected, just like every other cheap politician!

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

that's a laugh!

lincoln would have done exactly what the radicals wanted. all that was important to him was being re-elected, just like every other cheap politician!

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

WELL SAID!

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

you'll have to go to HELL to thank lincoln.

he's in the front row nearest the fire.

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

actually you'd be living in the Socialist States of Amerika.

absent the civilizing/conservative influence of 140 years of southerners, the remaining union states would be SOCIALIST.

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

those of us who stay here call it damnyankee-occupied VA.

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

your defense of lincoln, the cheap politician & tyrant, is LAUGHABLE!

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

cross into Prince William County and you are in DIXIE!

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

yep, i can.

personally using the name of the tyrant in the same paragraph, much less in the same sentence, with our the name of our precious SAVIOR is repugnant to me.

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

i personally prefer "the war for southern independence", but will accept TWBTS.

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

LOL! i din't know you were "one of those"!

who would have guessed?

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

you win the PINK POPCYCLE AWARD for the most STUPID statement of today!

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

in other words, being a WAR CRIMINAL is FINE with you?

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

ROTFLMAO!

yet ANOTHER stupid post!

you are a hoot.

Free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

funny you should mention that. MOST of the women defiled, toermented & MURDERED in the southland by the "filth that came down from the north, wearing blue" were NON-white,mostly slaves.

free dixie,sw

[Non-Sequitur]

in other words, being a WAR CRIMINAL is FINE with you?

If it is true that the victors write the history then it's equally true that the losers do their best to rewrite it to fit their own agenda.