Michael Burlingame

1 week ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Henry Olsen |John Rosenthal |Peter Skerry |Michael Burlingame

Download Subscriber Only Subscribe President Donald Trump’s whirlwind of early activity reminded Americans what leadership can look like. But effective leadership consists of much more than throwing a lot of executive orders against the wall to see what legally sticks. It requires prudential judgment, assessing what is possible now. Taking big risks with imperfect information is also a key characteristic of real leaders. Both President George H.W. Bush and George W.

Nov 26, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Michael Burlingame

In the 1960s, the historiography of the Reconstruction period underwent a tectonic shift. Scholars like Kenneth Stampp, Eric McKitrick, and John Hope Franklin began dramatically to revise the story of the era just after the Civil War. Inspired by the civil rights movement then underway, they successfully challenged accounts of Reconstruction by adherents of the “Dunning school” (named after William Archibald Dunning, a Columbia University historian and political scientist).

Oct 4, 2024 | americanmind.org | Michael Burlingame

salvo 13 minutes A new documentary resurrects a frivolous old innuendo.

Oct 4, 2024 | americanmind.org | Michael Burlingame

The movie “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” boldly claims that Lincoln had sex with four different men. The evidence supporting that conclusion is underwhelming. It is an argument which had been made at length in Clarence A.