Norman Gasbarro | March 8, 2012
On 1 January 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Much has been written about the proclamation and its effect on the war and the policy for the conduct of the war. On the day after its release, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported the following: The President’s Emancipation Proclamation. The important Proclamation of the President of […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 24, 2012
A School History of the United States by Albert Bushnell Hart and published in 1918, was in widespread use in the one room school houses of the Lykens Valley area after World War I. There are subtle changes in this text from the one used in the latter part of the 19th century (see post […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 23, 2012
A Smaller School History of the United States by David Scott was in widespread use in the one room school houses of the Lykens Valley area after the Civil War. The following excepts are taken from this book, and show how the subject of “slavery as a cause of the Civil War” was taught in […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 20, 2012
The most impressive shrine to our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, is located in Washington, D.C., at the end of the mall on ground that once was a swamp. Thousands of tourists stop at the monument each day, climb its steps and take photographs of the large statute of Lincoln, his words from two of his […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 12, 2012
The Real Abraham Lincoln, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, was published in 2002 by Three Rivers Press of New York and promised to give “a new look at Abraham Lincoln, his agenda, and an unnecessary war.” In the book, DiLorenzo primarily challenged the conventional view of Lincoln – the one most taught in schools and colleges […]
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