ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE MAN BEHIND THE MONUMENT

Episode 13 | Human History — IndividualsIn this History episode we focus on Abraham Lincoln — the man who taught himself law from borrowed books on a frontier where schools barely existed, held the United States together through its bloodiest war, freed four million people, and was shot in a theater five days after the war ended.This episode covers his genuinely impoverished childhood, his almost entirely self-directed education, the Peoria Speech of 1854, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the specific qualities that made him an extraordinary wartime president, the Emancipation Proclamation as both moral act and military strategy, and an honest assessment of his racial views including his long support for colonization.The monument deserves the complexity.#HistoryMystery #AbrahamLincoln #CivilWar #AmericanHistory #HistoryPodcast