William Lee Miller Books
Lincoln's Virtues
William Lee Miller’s ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln’s rise to power. Through careful scrutiny of Lincoln’s actions, speeches, and writings, and of accounts f...
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The first liberty
Explores the American concept of religious liberty: how it originated, its enactment into law, and its continuing consequences.
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Arguing aboutslavery
Here is the United States Congress in the 1830s, grappling (or trying unsuccessfully to avoid grappling) with the gravest moral dilemma inherited from the framers of the Constitution. Here is the c...
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Arguing about Slavery
In the 1830s slavery was so deeply entrenched that it could not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a "gag rule" to ensure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected. This...
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