Reconstruction was overthrown, not that it ground to an exhausted halt. Indifference and inattention helped to divert resources from Reconstruction, … - Allen C. Guelzo

Lincoln is, both culturally and in terms of his economic thinking, firmly and immovably located in the center of what we can call liberal democratic thought in the 19th century. He is very much market oriented, with tremendous confidence in the power of a capitalist society to transform for the better, and he believes in opening the possibilities of that society to as many as possible. To him, that’s what’s coterminous with liberty.

Culture made the use of the F-bomb on television unthinkable in 1965; 40 years later, HBO would be lost without it.

The real crime of white supremacy was not that it put up statues, or even that it made speeches, but that it attacked citizens and passed laws.