Was Lincoln a Tyrant?

Was Lincoln a Tyrant?

by | Mar 27, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

When Abraham Lincoln took office in March 1861, the executive branch was small and relatively limited in its power. By the time of his assassination, he had claimed more prerogatives than any president before him, and the executive branch had grown enormously....
Book Review

Book Review

by | Sep 24, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“WE HAVE THE WAR UPON US: THE ONSET OF THE CIVIL WAR, NOVEMBER 1860-APRIL 1861” By William J. Cooper, Knopf ($30). Blaming “Inflexible” Lincoln Misleading, Wrong More than 150 years after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, historians...