Hmmm ... the only thing that turns up on Google when one looks for "Historian Edward Powell," even with other search words, is a Nov. 28th 2000 piece by a certain "Thomas DiLorenzo."
Puzzling ... I wonder what this Powell actually was, or did, or wrote.
Glad to see more, if anyone can find it. And do be sure to read all of DiLorezo's columns ... they are the source of much here.
Cheers,
Richard F.
I've tried to read this thread again, Richard, but I really have a lot of trouble understanding all of this ugliness and hostility toward Lincoln. It makes me wonder if Freepers 140 years from now will be inundated with thread after thread of painful and agonizing recounts of each county's votes from the 2000 Florida Presidential election. Naturally, the underlying theme will be that the "real Americans" were robbed and that subsequent generations were doomed to live lives of perpetual misery.
Has anyone else ever suggested that these threads bear a lot of striking similarities to the litigation by which some are seeking reparations for slavery?