Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

Eric Foner


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It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals. I've spent thirty years teaching history at Columbia and I don't think I've spent more than fifteen minutes in the freshman dorm. Are we the ones keeping Lincoln's memory alive? Or are we burying it?

Eric Foner

Tags: college lincoln



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The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars to ignore or downplay aspects of Lincoln's beliefs with which they are uncomfortable.

Eric Foner

Tags: abraham-lincoln history-of-the-united-states



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