Honoring Lincoln and Grant on Presidents Day

Today is Presidents Day.  Oh, of course people link together Lincoln and Washington (who had his original birthday shifted when there was a change in the calendar not too long after his birth), but now they get to share this day with Millard Fillmore and Chester A. Arthur.

What follows are some rather interesting ways in which Americans have chosen to celebrate two Civil War-related presidents, Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. 

A nice review … and complicating some mindsets …

Woke up this morning to learn that Newsweek offered a nice review of The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It.

However,

Three Observations on A. Lincoln, Slavery, and Race

Sometimes arguments are best presented in concise style.  With that in mind, I’d like to advance three propositions about Abraham Lincoln’s views on race and slavery that folks might want to consider.