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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.

— Allen 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)

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