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Interview: Wilfred McClay on Land of Hope

Senior Fellow Daniel Cullen recently sat down with JMC board member Wilfred McClay to discuss McClay's new textbook, Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Experience.

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Diana Schaub on Lincoln’s Political Thought

JMC faculty partner Diana Schaub recently appeared on Conversations with Bill Kristol to discuss Lincoln's political thought, particularly as seen in the Lyceum Address and Gettysburg Address.

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The Adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment

July 28 marks the 151st anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment's certification.

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Diana Schaub: Lincoln at Gettysburg

JMC faculty partner Diana Schaub recently appeared on the National Affairs podcast to discuss her Spring 2014 essay on Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

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Andrew Delbanco: The 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction

JMC faculty partner Andrew Delbanco has won a 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his book, The War Before the War, which explores how fugitive slaves helped push the nation towards civil war.

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Joshua Lynn: Preserving the White Man’s Republic

JMC Fellow Joshua A. Lynn has written a new book about the national Democratic Party, race, and the lasting conservatism of the 1840s and 1850s. It will be released in April 2019.

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Forrest Nabors on the Missouri Compromise

On February 19, Forrest Nabors will be giving the 2019 Jack Paynter Lecture at James Madison College, Michigan State University, on the Missouri Compromise and how it led to civil war.

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The Oligarchy of the American South

James Read reviews JMC faculty partner Forrest Nabors' book on southern oligarchy in Antebellum and Postbellum America.

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Understanding the Civil War

James Stoner, Thomas Merrill, and Alan Levine's book on the political thought of the Civil War has been released.

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When Political Order Collapses

The Library of Law and Liberty published JMC fellow William Anthony Hay's review of David Armitage's Civil Wars: A History in Ideas.

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Watch: Lecture on Lincoln and the Daughters of Dred Scott

Diana Schaub delivered a lecture at Harvard's Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy last fall.

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Missouri Lecture: Adam I.P. Smith on Civil War Politics

Adam I.P. Smith, a professor at University College London, will discuss the conservative politics of the Civil War.

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Conference at Gettysburg College – “The War in 1865”

Friday, June 19th - Wednesday, June 24th

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The Declaration in a House Divided

Five scholars discuss the Declaration in a time of crisis.

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“Slavery’s End Deserves a 150th Celebration”

Historian Allen Guelzo on the passage of the 13th Amendment, which ended of slavery.

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