Perhaps one of the most amazing things about Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, beside the fact that its brevity belies its significance and power, relates to what was omitted within the content of the speech, “It is brief, one might argue, because it is silent on so much that one would expect...

One refers to the Lincoln-Douglas debates as to the series of the representative political speeches between the Republican candidates for the post of the US President Abraham Lincoln and between the Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas. In the speech, delivered on July 17, 1858 Abraham Lincoln reflected on such aspects as...

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) gives a feeling of ambiguity. On the one hand, it is an impressive biopic full of memorable acting of Daniel Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, David Straitharn, and Sally Fields, and with an intricate story line revolving around the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery....

Lincoln debuts mid-battle with the gloom, carnage, and anguish. No act of butchery is filtered, evident as a soldier – forced down by the foot of another - drowns in murky water. I am reminded of Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan as I watch this. It is piercing, as it should...

Abraham Lincoln’s “Proclamation of Emancipation” of 1863 transformed him into prophetic figure for millions of African Americans, who labeled him as “The Great Emancipator, for having freed them so suddenly from the claws of slavery. However, years after these events, African and White American critics began to criticize his views...