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born 1953 United States

Allen Carl Guelzo (born 1953) is an American historian.

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Also known as: AC Guelzo, Allen Carl Guelzo, Allen Guelzo, Guelzo, A.C. Guelzo

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Defending slavery deprived the Confederate soldier to the same claim to nobility, but not to tragedy.

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013)

The political idealism of the Revolution also encouraged, and sometimes forced, white slave owners to liberate their slaves.

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)

Protecting slavery, Lincoln declared, had become the chief irritant that provoked the Southern states to reach for the solution of disunion.

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)

[E]ven a great man cannot be wise in everything.

The Bicentennial Lincolns (2010)

There has never been a freedom, of course, that someone has not proved ingenious enough to abuse.

Free Speech and Its Present Crisis (2018)

It was once said, as a commercial joke, that it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature. The same is true in this case, but not as a joke: It’s not nice to fool with history.

From the moment they took a republic rather than a monarchy as the shape of their government, Americans prided themselves on being a nation of peace, dedicated to the arts of commerce rather than the rapacity of empire and "the spirit of war."

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013)

Where a republic demands equality, and equality tends to ensure mobility, oligarchy is about hierarchy and stasis.

Bullwhip Feudalism (2018)

Culture made the use of the F-bomb on television unthinkable in 1965; 40 years later, HBO would be lost without it.

Free Speech and Its Present Crisis (2018)

[A]bsent Lincoln's proclamation, not a single fugitive slave would ever be other than a fugitive, rather than a legally free man.

The Bicentennial Lincolns (2010)

[E]mancipation cannot be so easily detached from union (which is another way of saying that racial justice and liberal democracy rise or fall with each other).

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013)

[R]eligious commitment formed the backbone of much of the North's hostility to slavery.

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)

The anti-free-speech fanatics on campuses and throughout the country have raised their hand against the idea that guarantees us life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Free Speech and Its Present Crisis (2018)

Emancipation, not colonization, was the real goal to which the logic of the American Founding was driving the nation.

The Logic of Liberty (2014)

[T]yranny is a deviant form of monarchy.

[T]he genuinely oppressed—as opposed to the hustlers of faux outrage—have always known freedom of speech to be their best friend.

Free Speech and Its Present Crisis (2018)

Everywhere that there is aristocracy in the world, there is sympathy for the Confederacy, and rejoicing that this civil war looks like it's finally going to paid for good to these notions of democracy.

Interview with Andre Damon (2013)

[N]o democracy worth its name could continue to drag the burden of slavery around after it.

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013)

Reconstruction should be considered as a "bourgeois revolution."

Interview with Sara Gabbard (2018)

We live in a cynical age.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Allen C. Guelzo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.