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Author of the The Real Lincoln to speak TODAY at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Posted on 04/16/2003 5:44:44 AM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Announcements; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: burkedavis; civilwar; dixie; dixielist; economics; fairfax; georgemason; gmu; liberty; lincoln; reparations; slavery; thomasdilorenzo; warbetweenthestates
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To: Non-Sequitur
Yawn...you are too easy. I guess you've never heard of Canada or the Confederate envoys to Europe that were received well....better, in fact, than the rubes lincoln sent over to bully them into not jumping in on our side.
Keep on revising it and one day maybe you'll make it true. You learned well from your clintonian mentors.
To: rebelyell
By the rational that it wasn't. Nobody considered them independent except the southerners themselves. That is meaningless. You can call yourself independent, you can call your self the Pope for that matter. But until someone starts referring to you as 'Your Holiness' then you're just another nut.
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To: rebelyell
So I can't call you or Corin David Duke supporters, but yet you can call us Clintonian.
Nice hypocrisy.
Listen, if you feel this country is so evil, then do me a favor-LEAVE! I'll pay your passage out of here.
To: rebelyell
I guess you've never heard of Canada or the Confederate envoys to Europe that were received well....better, in fact, than the rubes lincoln sent over to bully them into not jumping in on our side. Nope, I just never heard of Canada or any other country recognizing confederate independence and establishing diplomatic relations with them. We keep coming back to that one important point. Nobody considered the confederacy a country except the confederates themselves. And they, it seems, believed anything. They believed that Davis actually supported states rights, for Christ's sake.
To: rebelyell
Why did Brooks have a right to beat Sumner? Because Sumner attacked slavery as evil?
We should have hung Brooks? Typical slavocrat. When they can't win mentally, they resort to physical violence.
To: rebelyell
Preston Brooks. John Booth. Y'all seem to love people who sneak up and attack unarmed people while their backs are turned.
To: republicanwizard
Actually, we tried to leave and were forcibly coerced by a tyrant and a pack of war criminals into remaining in your precious "union".
Since you cannot argue with facts you keep accusing us of supporting slavery. Please C&P where any of us Southrons have done such a thing. Oh that's right...you're just making THAT up, too! You yanks amaze me.
To: republicanwizard
Isn't 'Rebelyell' a brand of cheap bourbon or something? If so, that would go a long way towards explaining his posts.
To: republicanwizard
No, because Sumner insulted a relative of Brooks', that's why. You marxists aren't familiar with honour but it means something down here.
To: Non-Sequitur
That was truly weak. Next will you claim that your daddy can beat mine up....
To: rebelyell
Yes, like the honor of all the Southern slave women whom your masters and slavedrivers defiled. Yes, we know of your honor, and we find it repulsive.
To: rebelyell
Next will you claim that your daddy can beat mine up... Well, mine is dead. But still....
To: rebelyell
You marxists aren't familiar with honour but it means something down here. So...the southern code of honor requires that if you are insulted you send out a distant cousin to do your dirty work?
To: Non-Sequitur
Mine is dead too. But I bet he could have whipped yours' ass! heh heh
To: rebelyell
Just so I get the point through your thick head.
Yes, like the honor of all the Southern slave women whom your masters and slavedrivers defiled. Yes, we know of your honor, and we find it repulsive.
To: republicanwizard
Oh noooooooo. Don't call me a Simon Legree! That was about as pathetic as you tyrant apologists can get.
I am falling asleep...thanks for your help.....
To: stainlessbanner
A most eloquent statement, Stainless.
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04/16/2003 7:09:35 PM PDT
by
thatdewd
(When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.)
To: rebelyell
Then stop defending the Simon Legrees.
To: republicanwizard
Wait, weren't you guys just "sharing infinity" a little earlier. Honeymoon's over, I guess. Pity.
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04/16/2003 7:35:32 PM PDT
by
Treebeard
(Sic Semper Distemper Tyrannosaurus Rex)
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