America has a Lincoln problem. Professor Tom DiLorenzo explains why our nearly deification of “Honest Abe” presents a fundamental problem for our understanding of both the American past and the American present.
Historians on both the left and the right have called for the removal of Confederate monuments. The mob has illegally and violently torn many down and others are winding up at sewage treatment plants. Philip Leigh explains why this is un-American.
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address invented history in 1863. Professor Brion McClanahan explains that his fairy tale speech was neither popular at the time nor historically accurate either then or today.
Dr. McClanahan has assembled an incredible array of illuminating historical courses at McClanahan Academy where he presents authoritative lectures on a wide variety of subjects that touch on American History, particularly those concerned with Southern history. As a lifetime learner I have enrolled in thirteen of the courses, and would highly recommend Ten Myths of American History, The Declaration of Independence, The Founding Fathers, Secession, The War for Southern Independence, Reconstruction and Recreation 1862-1975, The American Presidents, and his four part series on Southern Cultural and Intellectual History. All excellent, edifying, and highly entertaining.
6:57 pm on January 26, 2021
