Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

(03-08-2019 08:05 PM)L Verge Wrote:  The used teacher in me thinks this would be a perfect topic for a thesis from an education major.

Laurie, I just created a new thread under News and Announcements titled "'Potholes' in the President Abraham Lincoln History Roadway". I thought that others might make contributions to this thread with other published invalid Lincoln stories. As the list expands, someone may one day be able to write a doctoral thesis on the topic of published false Abraham Lincoln stories with a theory or theories to explain why people have created such false narratives. "Lincoln, Stanton, and Tad water hose" story would be one good example. And, it would also be a means to separate the "chaff from the wheat" in one location.

One bothersome false narrative that I have heard a number times is that President Lincoln himself was a racist because he advocated the possibility of returning former slaves to their native land at the end of the Civil War. These same people who believe that Lincoln was therefore a racist are unaware that many of the Northern states at the time had black exclusionary laws.