Lincoln, Abraham

This dissertation examines the scholarship and political writings of Harry V. Jaffa (1918-2015), who taught for many years at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University.

The approximately one and a half decade period prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War was characterized by growing sectional tensions over the future status of slavery in the Western territories. The various controversies surrounding this uniquely resonant issue fractur…

Historically, in each of America’s past wars a significant proportion of each of them had to first be fought by an initial military strategy leading to defeat. The nation endured, and was perhaps lucky, until the winning military strategies were innovated by generals eventually …

The following study is an intellectual and political study on the passionate attachment that nineteenth century Americans had to the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution. To Americans living during the antebellum period, the Founding Fathers were larger than life idols wh…