Lincoln, the Movie, and The Rest of the Story

Date: 7 Dec 2012 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Lincoln is a magnificent movie. But as I left the theatre, to echo Paul Harvey, the late radio commentator, I wanted to know “the rest of the story”. The movie begins in January 1865, exactly 2 years after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves of the Confederate States “thenceforward and forever free. ” As Lincoln … Read More