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Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War
Monday, August 5, 2002 to Saturday, August 10, 2002
Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio
Instructors: Mackubin T. Owens and Lucas E. Morel
Readings
- James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom. Ballantine Books, 1989.
- Lord Charnwood, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography. Madison Books, 1998.
- George Anastaplo, Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
- Roy Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings. Da Capo Press, 1990.
- Robert Walter Johannsen, ed., The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858. Oxford University Press, 1965.
- Harry V. Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- Harry V. Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
- Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States of America. Ashland, Ohio: Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, 2001.
- Photocopied Reading Packet.
Schedule
Monday, August 5
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Session One
(88:57 minutes)
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Session 1 with Professor Owens: 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
(Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: Lincoln Over the Years
Reading:
- Edmund Wilson, "The Battle Hymn" and "Abraham Lincoln" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Richard Hofstadter, "Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Lerone Bennett, "Was Abe Lincoln a White Supremacist?" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Joshua Kleinfeld, "Lincoln and the New America" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Charnwood, Lincoln
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Tuesday, August 6
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Session Two
(87:51 minutes)
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Session 2 with Professor Owens: 9:00 am - 10:30 pm
(Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: Ante-Bellum America
Reading:
- Battle Cry of Freedom, Prologue, Chapters 1-4
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Session Three
(91:17 minutes)
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Session 3 with Professor Morel: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
(Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: Slavery and the Founding
Reading:
- Anastaplo, Chapters 1-4
- Declaration of Independence (Declaration/Constitution booklet)
- Bradford, "The Heresy of Equality" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Jaffa, "Equality and the American Revolution: In Reply to Bradford's 'The Heresy of Equality'" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Jaffa, Crisis, Chapters 14, 15, 17
- West, Vindicating the Founders, Chapter 1 "Slavery" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Storing, "Slavery and the Moral Foundations of the American Republic" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
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Session Four
(90:38 minutes)
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Session 4 with Professor Morel: 4:30 am - 6:00 pm
(Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: Slavery, Ante-Bellum Politics and Westward Expansion
Reading:
- Anastaplo, Chapters 6-7
- McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom Chapter 5
- Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided, Chapters 3-10
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- Dec 10, 1856 speech at a Republican banquet in Chicago (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- Dec 28, 1857 letter to Lyman Trumbull (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- Frederick Douglas, selected readings from Herbert Storing, ed., What Country Have I? Political writings by Black Americans (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1970) (Photocopied Reading Packet)
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Wednesday, August
7
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Session Six
(93:22 minutes)
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Session 6 with Professor Morel: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
(Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Reading:
- Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided, Chapters 11-13, 18-20
- Johannsen, First, Second, and Seventh Debates
- Anastaplo, Chapters 8-11
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
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Thursday, August
8
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Session Eight
(91:09 minutes)
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Session 8 with Professor Morel: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
(Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: The Election of 1860
Reading:
- McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Chapters 6-8
- Anastaplo, Chapter 12
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- Cooper Union Speech (p. 517)
- February 11, 1861 farewell speech at Springfield (p. 568)
- February 21, 1861 farewell Address to NJ Senate (p. 574)
- March 4, 1861 First Inaugural Address (p. 579)
- May 25, 1861 letter to Ephraim D. and Phoebe Ellsworth (p. 593)
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Session Nine
(105:11 minutes)
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Session 9 with Professor Owens: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
(Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: The Rights and Wrongs of Secession
Reading:
- McPherson, Chapter 9
- Anastaplo, Chapter 13
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- August 22, 1862 letter to Horace Greeley (p.651)
- The Justifying Cause of Secession (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Speech of Alexander H. Stephens, The 'Cornerstone' Speech (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Mayor Wood's Recommendation of the Secession of New York City (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- July 4, 1861 Message to Congress in Special Session (p. 594)
- Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- To Reverdy Jackson (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- To Winfield Scott (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Owens, "The Case Against Secession" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
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Film: 8:00 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: Watch Glory
Friday, August
9
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Session Ten
(92:15 minutes)
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Session 10 with Professor Owens: 9:00 am - 10:30 am
(Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: Lincoln as War Leader
Reading:
- McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Chs. 10-28
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- September 22, 1861 letter to Orestes Browning (p. 613)
- December 3, 1861 Annual Message to Congress (p. 616)
- May 19, 1862 Presidential Proclamation (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- July 28, 1862 letter to Bullitt (p. 648)
- August 22, 1862 letter to Horace Greeley (p. 651)
- September 28, 1862 letter to Hannibal Hamblin (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- September 30, 1862 Meditation on the Divine Will (p. 655)
- December 1, 1862 Annual Message to Congress (p. 666)
- December 23, 1862 Letter to Fanny McCullough (p. 688)
- January 8, 1863 letter to John A. McClernand (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- July 13, 1863 letter to Ulysses S. Grant (p. 710)
- July 14, 1863 letter to George S. Meade (p. 711)
- July 30, 1863 Presidential Order (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- August 5, 1863 letter to Nathaniel P. Banks (p. 714)
- August 17 and November 2, 1863 letters to James H. Hackett (p. 718, p. 732)
- August 26, 1863 letter to James C. Conkling (p. 720)
- December 8, 1863 Presidential Proclamation (p. 738)
- December 8, 1863 Annual Message to Congress (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- December 15, 1863 Letter to Thomas Cottman (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- March 13, 1864 letter to Michael Hahn (p. 745)
- April 4, 1864 letter to Albert G. Hodges (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- April 30, 1864 letter to U.S. Grant (p. 750)
- June 9, 1864 Reply to Delegates from the Nation Union League (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- July 8, 1864 Presidential Proclamation (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- September 12, 1864 Draft of a Letter to Isaac M. Schermerhorn (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- September 19, 1864 letter to William T. Sherman (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- October 19, 1864 Response to a Serenade (p. 760)
- November 10, 1864 Response to a Serenade (p. 763)
- November 21, 1864 letter to Lydia Bixby (p. 766)
- December 6, 1864 Annual Message to Congress (p. 773)
- December 26, 1864 Letter to William T. Sherman (p. 789)
- January 19, 1865 letter to U.S. Grant (p. 790)
- March 1, 1865 Reply to Notification Committee (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural (p. 792)
- March 15, 1865 letter to Thurlow Weed (p. 794)
- April 10, 1865 Response to a Serenade (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- April 11, 1865 Last Public Address (p. 796)
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Session Eleven
(88:06 minutes)
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Session 11 with Professor Owens: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
(Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Reading:
- Lincoln, Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Taney, "Ex Parte Merryman" from Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States of America during the Great Rebellion, 1860-1865 (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- To Erastus Corning and Others (pp. 699-708)
- Fehrenbacher, "Lincoln and the Constitution" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Belz, "Lincoln and the Constitution: The Dictatorship Question Revisited" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
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Guest Lecture
(90:08 minutes)
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Guest Lecture with Dr. Herman Belz: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: Lincoln, Reconstruction, and the Post-Civil War Amendments
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Saturday, August
10
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Session Twelve
(88:59 minutes)
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Session 12 with Professor Owens: 9:00 am - 10:30 am
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Topic: Emancipation and Black Soldiers
Reading:
- Lincoln, "Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- Annual Message to Congress (1862) (p. 666-688)
- Anastaplo, Chapter 14
- Lincoln, "Order of Retaliation" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Lincoln, "To Stephen A. Hulburt" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Lincoln, "To Nathaniel Banks" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- Annual Message to Congress (1864) (p. 773)
- Fehrenbacher, "Only His Stepchildren: Lincoln and the Negro" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- McPherson, "The 'Glory' Story" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Frederick Douglass, "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
- Lucas E. Morel, "Forced Into Gory Lincoln Revisionism," Claremont Review of Books (Claremont Institute, Fall 2000), S12 (Photocopied Reading Packet)
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Session Thirteen
(89:58 minutes)
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Session 13 with Professors Morel and Owens: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
(Seminar Room, Founders Hall)
Topic: "A New Birth of Freedom"
Reading:
- Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
- September 4, 1864 letter to Eliza Gurney (p. 757)
- Anastaplo, Chapters 15-16
- Morel, Chapter on the Second Inaugural (Photocopied Reading Packet)
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