What did Abraham Lincoln read? What makes him “America’s greatest defender”? What should we do with Confederate memorials? Lucas Morel, the John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University, joins the show to discuss all this and more!

 

“Why Lee should remain a namesake of my university”: https://richmond.com/opinion/columnists/lucas-e-morel-column-why-lee-should-remain-a-namesake-of-my-university/article_5d6664f6-00e0-55e7-b567-0a10ae5b3403.html

Lincoln and the American Founding: https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-American-Founding-Concise-Library/dp/0809337851

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