I guess Barack Obama complained that the Emancipation Proclamation was "more a military document than a clarion call for justice." To which history and civics teacher Betsy Newmark says, "Well, d'uh."
Being a history teacher, she goes on to explain why Lincoln used his authority as Commander in Chief for that situation.
She recommends the book Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation by Allen Guelzo.
The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
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Some bad ideas just keep coming back to haunt us and hinder us all over
again. In this book, published in 1967, Alfred Brooks, a black seventeen
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I sometimes wonder, in light of Durbin's idiotic comments, and now Obama's rather silly one, whether we can make a history test a prerequisite for holding public office in this country!
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