Tag: civil war
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Happy Thanksgiving from Abraham Lincoln
On this Thanksgiving, it is, perhaps, appropriate to go back to Abraham Lincoln’s words from his Thankgiving Proclamation to give us all some perspective. For Lincoln, Thanksgiving was about acknowledging the mercies of God in the midst of the great civil war the country was embroiled in. And here, in 2016, we may not be […]
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History: Booker T. Washington’s “Up from Slavery”
Booker T. Washington’s autobiography “Up from Slavery” is the classic look at post-slavery, post-Civil War America that is both instructive, surprising, and insightful for our modern society. Washington was a young boy when he received his freedom after the war, and he had the insatiable desire for learning. He would let nothing stop him, no […]
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Know Your History: What the Emancipation Proclamation Really Did
It freed the slaves. Not really. What’s the deal? Let’s break it down a little so we can understand exactly why Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a master stroke of genius – even if it didn’t free one slave! It was late summer in 1962 and the war between the Union and Confederacy was not […]
Author Mark W Sasse 