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James Russel Lowell, the famous Harvard English professor and 19th century abolitionist poet, wrote with regard to learning from the past, "[W]e make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free." Just as it is so easy to create an anachronistic philosophy of life out of an old truth passed down from previous generations, it is also easy to let our fears of repeating the past hold us prisoner. President Clinton can't let go and let the past be the past...
Donnelly said the forty minute show will profile Alcott's childhood and services as a Civil War nurse, abolitionist leader, and woman's suffrage crusader...
WASHINGTON. This month marks the centenary of the death of Frederick Douglass, the Maryland slave born in 1818 who became the most renowned African-American voice of his generation in the U.S. antislavery movement and a relentless tribune of racial equality after the Civil War. To commemorate the abolitionist's triumphs and disappointments, the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery this week opens ``Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass,'' an exhibition with more than 80 paintings, sculptures, photographs, engravings, documents and personal memorabilia. Through...
...portrays, if briefly and discreetly, the mental problems that beset Lincoln and his wife. It acknowledges their marital troubles. It describes Lincoln as lazy, lacking in ambition, needing prodding to seek office. It depicts him as ideologically cautious and passive, resistant to reform, hesitant even to take up the abolitionist cause against slavery. Sherwood was echoing the populist message of Frank Capra's contemporaneous films, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the only hero to trust is one who doesn't want the job. But Sherwood was also humanizing an outsize figure, pointing out that...
...Slick Willie" could take lessons in evasion from this master. Lincoln's dodging and weaving offended the abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker, who was a hero to Lincoln's law partner William Herndon. And Karl Marx, who was reading closely in his American sources, concluded that Lincoln was timorous: "All Lincoln's acts have the appearance of mean hedging provisos, which one lawyer puts to his opposing lawyer...