Invisible Men

Thanks to civilwarmemory for pointing to a recent post by John David Hoptak, a writer and Park Ranger at the Antietam National Battlefield.

Hoptak’s Antietam presentations on the battle and the contemporaneous drafting of the Emancipation Proclamation have stirred a vicious reaction from many Park visitors, […]

Bye: The Hype
The apotheosis of Tim Russert has found it’s fitting climax in a Presidential Library [and Museum!]. Russert narrates the Lincoln Library’s “Campaign 1860″ exhibit, and Springfield’s State Journal-Register is leading calls to preserve it as a memorial within the memorial.

“Setting viewers straight on the views of candidates Lincoln, Stephen […]

It Ain’t Fitting
Via the abrahamlincolnblog comes word of an Oregon Lincoln statue decapitation, now headless for the 5th time.
Ashland Oregon is the scene for this repeat crime, the latest of a string dating back to the 1950s.

Craggy!
South Dakota’s favorite sons look down on an aspirant.

The Other
The militant halfwits of Fox & Friends are storied in legend and song for promoting crackpot stories of madrassa raised Barak Obama and other smears.
But what if all they are is dim?
Evidence for the affirmative: Fox & Friends confusing abolitionist Frederick Douglas […]