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13 Oct 2020, 3:46 am by SHG
., swept through the city on Sunday night, toppling statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and damaging the entrance to the Oregon Historical Society in a demonstration against colonization and the treatment of Native Americans. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
   Consider in this context the 1860 election, where civil war was triggered in large part because the 39.8% of the popular vote received by Abraham Lincoln turned out to be sufficient to receive an electoral vote majority entirely from the Northeast and Midwest. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 5:12 am by Jonathan H. Adler
[Statues of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt are the latest victims of rioters in Portland.] [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 11:06 am by David Priess
Among the many cases that come to mind when musing about contentious presidential elections are the one before the Civil War, another in which a candidate was nearly assassinated, and two of the five most recent contests: Stephen Douglas, despite saying during the 1860 campaign that the South would “never submit to such humiliation and degradation as the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln,” did not object to the outcome of the election. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
”  (281)President Abraham Lincoln taught us more than a century and a half ago that if we are to heal the rifts that divide us, we have to remember that we “read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. [read post]
5 Oct 2020, 10:54 am by Unknown
  Once crossing the expressway I noticed the tomb of Stephen Douglas, a towering and ornate memorial to the white Illinois politician who famously debated Abraham Lincoln, arguing that the expansion of slavery should be left to the local populations of whites. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 5:52 pm by Eugene Volokh
[A federal district court rejects the argument that the documentary will violate trade secret rights related to "a long-lost photograph that purportedly depicts Abraham Lincoln lying wounded on the night of his assassination. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 4:48 pm by David Priess
Likewise, Abraham Lincoln faced temporary disabilities during his time in office. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 12:12 pm by davidferriero
Certificates of appointment (or ascertainment) and vote of Massachusetts Electors for Abraham Lincoln for President, and Andrew Johnson for Vice President, in the 1864 Presidential Election. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 6:19 am
Contents include:Special Issue: Interdisciplinarity and the IR Innovation Horizon Ursula Daxecker, Annette Freyberg-Inan, Marlies Glasius, Geoffrey Underhill, & Darshan Vigneswaran, Introduction: Interdisciplinarity and the International Relations event horizon Chengxin Pan, Enfolding wholes in parts: quantum holography and International Relations Kerem Nisancioglu, Racial sovereignty Selim Can Sazak, Bad influence: social networks, elite brokerage, and the construction of alliances Heloise… [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 10:19 am by Sandy Levinson
  I am teaching a course this term on Abraham Lincoln, and one of the astounding things is the sheer nature of his speeches, including the now-famous Lyceum speech he gave at the age of 29 in Springfield. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 3:23 am by Dan Filler
Confidential nominations and inquiries can be directed to Werner Boel, LL.M. and Veena Abraham, J.D. at AUlawdean@wittkieffer.com. [read post]
20 Sep 2020, 1:43 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Abraham Lincoln faced this very thing in early October, Justice Roger Taney died. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 3:49 pm by Sandy Levinson
"  It is especially appropriate to bring this up on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which emphasizes not only the general theme of divine sovereignty, but also, more specifically, the presumptive "duty" of Abraham to obey the absolutely indefensible command that he sacrifice his son Isaac, after earlier, Abraham had, also indefensibly, banished his concubine Hagar and her son, Ishmael, because his wife Sarah was jealous. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 9:23 am by Tom Smith
Or perhaps the Times cannot avoid the reality that the "Abraham Accords" between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain are a historic achievement. [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 8:32 am by Tom Smith
Instead, in May 2017, Trump's first foreign trip was to Saudi Arabia, where he met with leaders of 54 Arab and Muslim-majority nations, setting the stage for Tuesday's breakthrough peace agreement known as the "Abraham Accords. [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 11:59 am by Anna Salvatore
Until today’s signing of the Abrahamic Accords at the White House, both countries had officially considered Israel illegitimate; now the three Middle Eastern nations will be able to publicly coordinate on economic, social and political issues. [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 10:43 am
"The agreement, called the Abraham Accord in honor of the three Abrahamic religions rooted in what is now Israel and surrounding lands, lays the ground for diplomatic, economic and other ties between Israel and two Persian Gulf neighbors," WaPo reports.Since it's the Washington Post, it's interesting to check the highest rated comment, which is sure to trash Trump. [read post]