Abraham Lincoln’s Re-founding
With Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln out in theaters, it’s a good time to use the movie as a teaching device to focus students’ attention on our nation’s 16th president. As many commentators have noted, the film presents an opportunity to compare the politics of Lincoln’s time with that of our own. David Brooks, writing at the New York Times, argues that the movie shows the “nobility of politics,” revealing “that you … Read more »