Hi – Our reading list for May 9 and May 16. -DR

Hi everyone,
Thank you for tolerating this 20th-century swerve in a Lincoln seminar. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.…[Read more]

Greenberg, Amy S. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 US Invasion of Mexico. New York: Vintage Books, 2013.

May, Robert E. Slavery, Race and Conquest in the Tropics Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

This is my review of these books regarding the American Colonization Movement. Please be gentle with my clumsy efforts attempting to write something coherent.
See you in class.

Sheldon

Clean copy of my latest review-essay,in the current “New York Review of Books.” Please read it for Wed. March 14.

Helper was a North Carolinian whose 1857 book “The Impending Crisis” argued that slavery was inhibiting the economic growth of the South. The book infuriated Southerners and was used as abolitionist propaganda in the North.

The way I took notes toward the McPherson piece.

How I abbreviate sources in my own notes.

These are notes I took on two Whitman books prior to writing my review for a forthcoming issue of the NY Review of Books.

These are notes I took on Blumenthal’s Lincoln biog prior to writing my review.

The screenplay of John Ford’s 1939 film “Young Mr. Lincoln.”

Selections from Confederate writings.