‘A partisan and politician’: Abraham Lincoln and the art of the deal | Politics books
Some historians are wary of discussing their work in light of modern events, comparing subjects to current political players. Not Matthew Pinsker of Dickinson College, the author of both a major new book, Boss…
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Lincoln has some surprising connections to the Wong Kim Ark case
The Author's Corner with Matthew Pinsker, *Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln* thewayofimprovement.blog/2026/02/24/t...
A growing collection of short profiles of ordinary Americans who did extraordinary things during the Civil War era.
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Did Lincoln plagiarize the Gettysburg Address? The answer is more inspiring than you might think.
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I missed this story a few days ago - the US House of Representatives naming its press gallery in honor of Frederick Douglass
tbh, it strikes me less as bipartisan than as another step in conservative efforts to appropriate Frederick Douglass
How Lincoln would navigate today’s politics
"What would Lincoln do?" Author and historian Matthew Pinsker's substack uses this question as a framework to explore modern politics. He talks with Geoff Bennett about his latest book, "Boss Lincoln," which examines how Lincoln still shapes our country…
Recalling William Still and others for Black History Month
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BOSS LINCOLN: A Conversation With Matthew Pinsker 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
On Lincoln's birthday, here are 15 new insights from Boss Lincoln, a book the Wall Street Journal calls a "landmark" and "Team of Rivals on steroids."
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njs.libraries.rutgers.edu NJS: An Interdisciplinary Journal Summer 2025 The New Jersey Miscount: The 1860 Census and the Accidental Humanization of Enslaved Individuals By Luke Voyles DOI: 10.14713/njs.v1112.362 Abstract: The 1860 census is the only example in U.S. history when the U.S. government systematically recorded the names and ages of enslaved individuals of a state. Because government officials underestimated the number of enslaved people in New Jersey, there was no slave schedule in the state. Therefore, the names of enslaved individuals appeared within the households of their enslavers in the regular 1860 census. The official census statistics only listed 18 individuals as enslaved in 1860, but a close examination of every 1860 census page for New Jersey uncovers 64 names tied to slavery. This essay explores the context behind the census, and how the census accidentally humanized people whom it often marginalized.
Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
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Trump warns that Mayor Frey is "playing with fire." But he's actually invoking a principle deeply rooted in American "history and tradition."
A song that starts with Lincoln's Lyceum Speech and ends with William Lloyd Garrison?! On a Civil War-themed concept album?! I realize this is from 2010 but I heard it for the first time yesterday and I can't stop listening. Speaks to the present moment as well.
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"We went to bed one night old fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs & waked up stark mad Abolitionists." --Amos A. Lawrence, 1854
I have been teaching US diplomatic history for over two decades and have never mentioned Greenland before. That's about to change.
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Insights from 1859-60, when Lincoln and his fellow Republicans were falsely accused of being insurrectionists
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The story of Anna Dickinson is one that should appear in every US history textbook.
There was a man from Massachusetts who voted for both Washington and Lincoln. You should know his name.
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It turns out Lincoln was a data analytics guy
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Why was there no "Lincoln Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine?
Unlike TR, Abraham Lincoln was one great Republican statesman who remained a consistent skeptic of US interventionism in Latin America. Read more on Substack:
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National Park Service Receives One Final Punch in the Gut From the Trump Administration #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
As the "Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act" now moves to the
Ohio Senate, I decided to break it down: thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/12/12/o...
Spoiler alert: he called him "Selfish" and "Obnoxious"
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"I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House." Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1864
A special Black Friday post about Lincoln's surprising shopping habits
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