What did Abraham Lincoln read? What makes him "America's greatest defender"? What should we do with Confederate memorials? Lucas Morel, the John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University, joins the show to discuss all this and more!

You can buy Morel's book Lincoln and the American Founding here.

You can read Morel's editorial "Why Lee should remain a namesake of my university" here.

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Lincoln and the American Founding: A Conversation with Lucas Morel

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