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#3 – A Friend of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan – 2025 Best Reads
Abraham Lincoln may be the most written-about US President, but you’ve never seen him through Cage Weatherby’s eyes. →
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#7–The War Before the War: Heartlands Best Reads of 2019
A second history book makes the list in the #7 spot of our annual countdown of Best Reads. Anthony Delbanco, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, focuses on a potent symbol of antebellum America, the fugitive slave, and shows how the unspooling →
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Why a Story of Fugitive Slaves May Not Just Be History
In light of the current Great Divide, there is no innocent reading of history. We mine every thesis about the Constitutional Convention or the Civil War for evidence of another agenda. History becomes covert commentary on Trump and the Resistance. So when Andrew Delbanco’s wonderful new book on fugitive slaves in antebellum America landed in →
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